Adding an RSS Feed to a Thunderbird RSS Account from Firefox 2.0 Tutorial

Adding an RSS Feed to a Thunderbird RSS Account from Firefox 2.0
A reader pointed out that you are supposed to be able to add feeds directly from Firefox 2.0 to a Thunderbird RSS account, but found the feature didn't work. Unfortunately, it's not quite that direct, but I did some poking around and figured out how to do do it. The integration definitely needs work, but consider this a work-around until Mozilla gets its act together and develops a smoother process for adding feeds between the programs.

Note: See the Thunderbird RSS Tutorial if you need help setting up RSS in Thunderbird.

To add a feed directly from Firefox 2.0:

1. Navigate to a site. Sites that have an RSS feed display an orange RSS symbol in the address bar.
2. Click the orange symbol and a nifty little subscription page opens. See the screen shot below.
3. Open Thunderbird.
4. Right-click the RSS folder where you want to add the feed and select Manage Subscriptions and Feeds. The Manage Subscriptions and Feeds window opens.
5. Return to Firefox, click the Subscribe to this feed using drop-down list and select Thunderbird.
6. Click the Subscribe button and the Manage Subscriptions and Feeds window overlays the Firefox window.
7. Click the Add button and the Feed Properties dialog box opens.
8. Copy and paste the address from the Firefox address bar into the Feed Properties dialog box and click OK. The feed is added.

Comments

[g.r.l]

I think I may have found a shorter way...

Once you've setup the RSS in Thunderbird,

Drag the "orange symbol" / link to your RSS folder in Thunderbird and it will add it to your subscriptions.

So no more copy & paste.

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That's great. I stopped using Thunderbird some time ago, but I hope this helps other readers who see your comment.

Thanks for the tip.

RM