Using Firefox 2 to quickly add RSS feeds to your LJ account

[rog]

Firefox 2 has a nifty feature for easily subscribing to RSS feeds in web based or desktop RSS readers via an orange RSS icon in the address bar when a feed is detected on a page. There's a good tutorial on this feature hereIf your favourite RSS reader happens to be your livejournal friends list, then you can follow the above tutorial, using a uri

Comments

[undyingking]

That's great. Hooray for about:config!

[matgb]

Excellent, very impressive. Will plug muchly methinks.

[libbi]

Thanks very much for the tip.

[digitalranger]

Fantastic, thank you!

user.js

[chiselwright]

Because I use firefox in more than one place I hunted around to see if there was an easier way to add these settings.

There is ("Prefs.js & User.js" from http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_9.html)

Simply create "user.js" in the appropriate location with the following content:
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.99.title", "LiveJournal Syndication");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.99.type", "application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.99.uri", "http://www.livejournal.com/syn/?url=%s");
This can easily be copied to any other machines where you use firefox, saving the clicking-and-typing every time you want to make this feature available at a new location.

[Usual restart required]