1. Notes: 29 / 1 year ago  from marc
    marclafountain.com: Google Chrome

    There is no built-in RSS reader or any option to send RSS links to an RSS reader that I can find. Amazingly, Google Chrome doesn’t even let you open an RSS feed in Google Reader as far as I can tell.

    I was confused as well when I first transitioned to Chrome to find that it didn’t have built-in RSS detection. Especially when every other major browser has had it for years. Especially when Google itself maintains one of the most popular RSS readers around.

    But in fact, it’s a feature and not a flaw. To a geek (or just anyone decently web-savvy), reading RSS feeds is a daily ritual. But RSS is actually not used or unknown to a large fraction of internet users. Some choose to use other means for news: Visiting the site daily, addicting to Twitter, etc. Most just find RSS too manual of a process in such a Web 2.0 world. I know for a fact that most of my Facebook/Twitter-using friends have no idea what RSS is.

    Google knows this as well. Instead of cluttering up the default browser layout with an unused icon, they’ve made an official RSS extension. And it’s popular enough to keep it almost permanently in the featured section of the Chrome Extensions Gallery.

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    1. carbiriena reblogged this from darknessandstarlight
    2. justintr reblogged this from marc and added:
      Well, Marc. Here’s your problem: you’re using...Mac. Now, give me justintr.
    3. andrewnonumbers reblogged this from marc and added:
      was confused as well when I first transitioned...to find that it didn’t have built-in RSS...
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