Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that
lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the
bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one
glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your
favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that
interest yousaving you time.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see
this icon on the bottom right corner of the
browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS
feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select
'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest
of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially
convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their
Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
Live Bookmarks in Action
Many sites and blogs use RSS to publish their most
recent headlines. The web site determines the
number of headlines displayed and how often the
headlines are updated.
Firefox lets you read news headlines without
visiting the news site's home page.
Headlines from Slashdot (RSS) and the BBC News
(RSS) displayed in the Bookmarks Sidebar. Clicking
on a headline takes you right to the article.
Advanced Tips
Add Live Bookmarks manually
Some sites don't tell Firefox that they support
Live Bookmarks, even though they actually do. If
you know the URL of a site's RSS feed (url ends
with .rdf or .xml), you can manually create a Live
Bookmark for the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and
select 'Manage Bookmarks'. Under the 'File Menu',
select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for the
Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles from
that site will appear as Live Bookmarks in Firefox.
Share your bookmarks
Why keep your bookmarks to yourself? Services
like http://del.icio.us let you publish your own
bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other Firefox users
can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live
Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it
easy to share cool sites you like with your friends.
You can also put your bookmarks into your own
private RSS feed, to share your bookmarks among
multiple computers.