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How can I let my Google Reader fluid app handle feed subscription?
The workflow that is broken for me since I put Google Reader in a Fluid instance is subscribing to feeds. I find new websites in Firefox, and push my Subscribe bookmarklet, or the nice orange autodiscovered feed icon in the adress bar. This of course opens Google Reader in Firefox, where I'm logged in to some other google account half the time and have to log out and log into my main account to subscribe to the feed.
It would be very cool if I could tell Firefox to use my Google Reader fluid app to handle feed subscriptions. Is there some way to accomplish this?
It would be very cool if I could tell Firefox to use my Google Reader fluid app to handle feed subscriptions. Is there some way to accomplish this?
I’m curious
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Inappropriate?Well, first off, I've noticed that Firefox 3 RC1 does not respect my system RSS reader setting.
Go to Safari -> Preferences -> RSS and set your preferred rss reader in the popup.
Now I quit, and restart Firefox 3 RC1 (for good measure) and click the blue RSS icon. FF launches some other app that I have not set as the default. So there's apparently nothing I can do about that.
Otherwise, you can set your default system RSS reader to your Google Reader SSB in Safari (or Mail.app) as described above, and it will be opened when you click an RSS link. GReader will open with a page that gives you an option to add the feed to your subscriptions.
All that said, there is still one bug in Fluid SSBs that can prevent this from working. If the SSB is not currently running and you click an RSS link, your (say GReader) SSB will open but will encounter and error and become non-responsive. at that point you'll need to quit the SSB and restart it and try again... I know this is a bad bug, but I've been trying diligently to fix it for months and cannot figure it out. :0[1 Comment
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“Otherwise, you can set your default system RSS reader to your Google Reader SSB in Safari (or Mail.app) as described above, and it will be opened when you click an RSS link. GReader will open with a page that gives you an option to add the feed to your subscriptions.”
This doesn’t work for me at all (from Safari). Fluid/GReader reports “Infinite Loop Detected” and offers to send the URL back to Safari—which of course isn’t really helpful ... What to do? Thanks! -
Inappropriate?I'm trying to set the Reader SSB as the default feed reader but a strange problem is occurring - when I select the SSB from the drop-down the value is quickly reset to what was selected before. Is this reproducible for anyone? -
Inappropriate?Preface: not exactly a Fluid question.
I have set my default RSS app in Safari to a Google Reader fluid instance. So it seems send the link to the SSB fine.
However, whenever I open a feed it goes to the "Add to Google..." IG/Reader splash page. I don't use IG and this page is just irritating. Does any one know why it doesn't go straight to Reader and how to change this behaviour.
In addition, when I open a feed to which I have already subscribed, Reader fails to jump to that feed in list view but rather just shows the Home view.
Has any one got the workflow here sorted?
I’m confused
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