I have been using Windows Live Mail for RSS and it works quite well.
But WLM is old tech and may no longer be supported in the future. So I decided to try Thunderbird. I already use Thunderbird for a Yahoo group.
I read most of my mail in Microsoft Outlook and I prefer Outlook for email, but not RSS. Thunderbird’s RSS feed is quite a bit different and took me a bit to get used to. BUT.. one thing I would never get used to and just may a deal breaker.
On some of the feeds when I clicked the subject to read the post, my browser would open to a blank screen with a one pixel only.
When I looked at the page source, all that was there was this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<meta chartset="utf-8">
<title>Twitter Widget Log Helper</title>
I closed it and could read the body of the post, but this was really aggravating as it happened with every post!
I searched on Mozilla’s help site, but if there was an answer there I couldn’t find it. I searched with Google and with Bing. There were a lot of folks complaining about this, but it was with browsers, not Thunderbird.
Several sites suggested adding Adblock Plus to Thunderbird, so I tried that, but I still got that blank page when I clicked a subject in a Thunderbird RSS feed.
Finally I found the answer on this site: MarkMail.
I went to Add-ons in Thunderbird, selection options in Adblock and created a filter that did the trick.
I added these two lines to the filter:
||twitter.com/i/jot
||platform.twitter.com/jot.html
Now the post opens without that aggravating blank screen opening in Firefox!
I also like RSS and use Windows Live Mail for it.
ReplyDeleteHowever it only updates what appears to be when it feels like it and not at the set intervals.
I frequently open a feed and then do a refresh and it comes up with new content.
I often think of using another method but I like to keep things simple so articles such as this are helpful.