On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 12:03:19 PM UTC+1, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused. This, tied together with
> approximately 750-odd bugs would be enough reason for me to drop the component all-together. Helps focus on more important work, mostly unused legacy code eats time. > I'm in the process of writing up a plan for how to proceed, but at this > stage I would be lying if I didn't say that the most likely course of > action is going to be to stop shipping feed support as part of Firefox, > and to suggest people use add-ons instead. Webextensions can fill this > gap pretty well with existing APIs, as they can detect and handle feed > requests appropriately. Yeah, that's the route Chrome took as well. Most SaaS feed-aggregators provide their own extension for various browsers and the FOSS community can care for it self, mostly. > > Also, could we maybe include these content handlers in the data synced with > > Firefox Accounts? It's rather discomforting to add the three lines of > > properties to about:config manually to every profile I create. > > Again, this is unlikely to be implemented in Firefox, though you can do > it yourself by setting the `sync` preferences for those preferences in > about:config, too: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Firefox_Sync/Syncing_custom_preferences > > I don't know if this works without the preferences being present on the > new client (otherwise I guess you're now just setting 6 things instead > of 3 in about:config and that obviously wouldn't be much help). Well, if that might be a problem, I "solved" that by replacing the first (yahoos') entry with mine, will see if it works. I've come across this page and discarded it for being marked as obsolete. I gave up the search, since I could not find anything else useful. > Sorry this isn't better news. No worries, just wanted to know more about the current state of affairs, thank you for your time! regards, -1 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
