I used to use RSS Owl for my news reading, but discovered the Sage extension for Firefox. RSS Owl was nice, and it did everything I thought it should but Sage has a lot of features I didn't know about, and works so well.
The main one is that it is built into Firefox. RSS Owl, was a stand alone version which for some annoying reason insisted on using Internet Explorer as the page viewer, so no tabbed browsing there! Which as most people know, once you use it, it's hard to go back.
The part about Sage I like is that it integrates with the live bookmark feature of Firefox, so you can instantly add any available RSS feed into it. Sage has a bookmark folder of it's own and the addition is instant, meaning that you do not have to refresh, restart, or generally navigate away from the page you were at when you added it, to see it in the list. So if you go to Firefox's bookmarks you will see a folder called Sage, where they all are.
Viewing each entry was simple. Everything appears in a side bar. Different feeds at the top, and individual stories underneath. Clicking a feed, will bring all the latest articles in the main window, in smaller versions of the sites actual layout. So you can see all the articles as they would be present on the site itself, in neat columns next to each other. Or click a seperate article to get just the one large version of that story. Nice!
If you don't understand it, give it a try, you might like it
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