RSS Ticker
Note: watch the RSS Ticker section of my blog for information on updates to this extension.
RSS Ticker is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that scrolls the items from your Live Bookmarks across your browser, a la a cable-news style ticker.
** THERE IS A KNOWN BUG WITH TOOLTIPS IN FIREFOX 3. I AM WORKING ON IT. **
The latest version of RSS Ticker is version 2.0.2. This version's features include:
- Placement of the ticker either at the bottom of the screen (under the status bar) or at the top of the screen (under the bookmarks toolbar).
- Ability to disable selected feeds from appearing in the ticker (Bookmarks Menu > Right-click on feed > Properties > Uncheck "Display this feed..." box, or via the Feed Manager)
- Feed manager - remove or add feeds to the ticker all at once. (Accessible in the options or via the "Manage Feeds" context menu option.)
- Option to disable the ticker while you are not using it.
- Option to have the ticker auto-hide when it's empty.
- Option to shuffle the feed items so that a variety of feeds are represented on the ticker at once.
- Mark an item as read by Ctrl-clicking on it.
- Context menu options to open all items in tabs, open all items in the selected feed in tabs, open all unread items in tabs, and open all unread items in the selected feed in tabs.
- Ability to manually scroll through the ticker using your mouse's scroll wheel.
- Configurable options:
- Feed update frequency
- Ticker speed
- Ticker smoothness
- Link width (for items in ticker)
- Hide items you've already read
- Bold items you haven't already read
- Context-menu options
- Have all links open in new tabs
- Optional toolbar button for quick disable/enable
- Detailed tooltips
- Option to limit how many items are shown from each feed
- A throbber in the upper-right-hand corner of the browser alerts you when your feeds are being loaded.
- If no feeds are found, the ticker will show a window with information on how to add feeds to the ticker.
To add a feed to RSS Ticker, just subscribe to the feed as a Live Bookmark in Firefox. The "Enable/Disable" buttons are for excluding feeds you've already subscribed to as Live Bookmarks from being shown in the ticker.
Note: the ticker uses your history to determine which links you've already seen, so if you clear your history, the ticker will show all links as unread.
RSS Ticker is compatible with Firefox 1.5 through 3.0b5pre.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
January 19th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Is it possible to display not only the RSS title, but also the article contents (description tag) in the scrolling line?
January 24th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Hi there,
Just writing as I seem to be having trouble with the rss ticker addon.
I can't seem to be able to add or remove any of the feeds in my "manage feed section". The only options are "disable" and "enable". I have two feeds currently running, and although they run fine - I can only disable them not remove.
Also, when I go to the rss ticker options by going to the "addon" section of firefox...absolutely nothing appears, none of the boxes in any of the sections are ticked and no feeds appear in the "manage feeds" section.
I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, updating...the whole shabang...but no luck.
I hope you can help, many thanks.
Z.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
First of all thank you for this nice Ticker.:-)
However, it don`t work well with the "All-in-One Sidebar", http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/
...maybe you want to take a look at this?!
January 30th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Thank you for this great add-on: simplest is easiest!
Is there any way you could display not one, but several scrolling lines (say: up to 5?) at once?
Thanks again.
February 21st, 2007 at 6:33 am
Hi, just tried this addon and i think it's great.
Just a note:
it can't read feeds where authentication is required, can solve this?
P.S.
Sorry for my english.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Brilliant! Where does it keep track of whether or not I have read a feed and how many feeds will it 'keep' in memory? It'd be great if you could put out some of the specs re: that when you have a moment. Specifically how one can make sure they don't 'miss' an item from a feed if that feed is pouring out 20 items a day and one only has the ticker set to display a few items at a time.
March 8th, 2007 at 10:03 am
FYI, I'm having the same problem as Ziad...
"Ziad Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Hi there,
Just writing as I seem to be having trouble with the rss ticker addon. I can’t seem to be able to add or remove any of the feeds in my “manage feed sectionâ€. The only options are “disable†and “enableâ€."
March 11th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Very good xpi! Bit it only for FF.
May you port it to SeaMonkey?
March 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Awsome work done here and surprisingly the only Firefox extension which is an RSS *ticker*. Wasn't able to find anything else. I like this one so much that I don't need to look anyway.
Problems: I can confirm what others reported already - I don't get any Add/Remove feeds buttons. I do have Enable/Disable though. Running FF 1.5.0.10 (yes, I know...) on Ubuntu.
Feature requests: Add tiny FF and REW arrows on each end of the ticker to FastForward and ReWind. Make it a user configured option to turn them on and off and let users set the speed boost. I hope this sounds like a useful idea and is easy to code.
Thanks again. Imagine how many people use your thing and love it but are lazy not to drop you a line of thanks. Then again, I'm unemployed... at the moment :P
March 20th, 2007 at 10:50 am
same problem as ziad and justin.
in fact the 'options' do not respond to anything. i cant add any feeds, even when i click on an rss icon. used to work fine. dunno what happened. haven't changed anything. disabled it once, and it stopped functioning after enabling it. uninstalled, d/l again, installed again, tried adding new feeds.. nothing!
Justin Says:
March 8th, 2007 at 10:03 am
FYI, I’m having the same problem as Ziad…
“Ziad Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Hi there,
Just writing as I seem to be having trouble with the rss ticker addon. I can’t seem to be able to add or remove any of the feeds in my “manage feed sectionâ€. The only options are “disable†and “enableâ€.â€
March 20th, 2007 at 10:56 am
please do help me out cos i really love this extension and can't do without it!!
March 29th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Suddenly all items from my RSS ticker send me to HTML.com.
I really like this add on now I cant figure out what is wrong. Previewing the feeds doesnt help.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Can't get it to work -- same problem as markus #3 -- wish it would...
April 9th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I have the same problem with there not being an ADD or Remove.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Rishard, Ameya, Ziad, Justin, Obi Bok:
Is the author reading these comments? With the instructions provided ('select them from the list below and hit the [nonexistent] add or remove button'), the extension is effectively useless as it will not allow you to add your own feeds. However, I just realized (after reading the description in the .rdf file, which mentioned referred to rss feeds as 'live bookmarks') that it might be possible to add / remove feeds by just adding them to Firefox as live bookmarks. This appears to work. It's not a bad feature (using the feeds you already have specified and being able to toggle them on and off), but it is no use if users cannot figure out how to make it work.
Cheers.
April 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Love the extension but I need to disable when i enabled it nothing happened. This is by far my most valued extension and would appreciated any help. I can not reload my feeds.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I really love your RSSTicker for Firefox, it's just the perfect way to consume feeds.
I do have one issue though: I use multiple machines (think 6-9) interchangeably, constantly moving between them all. Needless to say, RSSTicker is installed on each of the machines, pointing at the same feeds.
In order to avoid complete mental breakdown, I rely heavily on Google BrowserSync to keep my session going across all machines. The one thing which doesn't sync across though is which items I've read in RSSTicker.
Is there some way this could be corrected? I thought about maybe using Google Reader to aggregate all the feeds into a single feed and then having an option to notify Reader when an item is clicked (they must have an API).
Thoughts?
April 28th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Great extension, INFORSS is a good one also, however it kept losing my feeds for some reason.
just wondering about your RSS ticker, one thing i noticed is the OK button not working after i check the options i'd like. Is this something you know about or plan on fixing?
either way great ticker thanks for sharing it with me and i'm sure those that have used it feel the same way
cheers
April 29th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Great Extension, ONE Request Please...
add an option to auto scroll the tricker to right, because the Arabic language and Hebrew are from right to left languages.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Hi,
Great addon but there is small "but".
Is there option to cache which feed items Ive visited to not show this feeds (items) each time it is refreshed?
May 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
MY RSS ticker.. it'll start skipping real fast through certain feeds.. those with not a lot of items in them I think. I wish it would scroll through them as smoothly as it scrolls through everything else, but it suddenly gets choppy and skips really quickly through those feeds. Putting it on "randomize" solves the problem.. but I'd prefer to have my ticker display items grouped by feed.. it would be more thematic and consistent that way. I don't know what I could do.. short of some kind of add-on or reinstall.. to solve this problem.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Nice little extension which makes great use of Firefox's own livemarks :)
Would it be possible to
1) Have the ticker located IN the status bar
2) Have a fade in/out with a user-defined duration?
as InfoRSS does? I used to use that but it got annoying once it started to lose feeds and repeat old ones.
Kind Regards from Dublin!
BC
June 4th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
hi, i'm using feed sidebar from you too - these two extensions check read/unread status variously ? (if i visit link from ticker in feed status bar is still as unread and vice versa - is possible join these statuses ? and similar what about check intervals and auto checking itself (feed status bar seem not to auto check if is not open what is not good but ticker can check feed in background so they show same feeds in different intervals ... :( ) in other ways these two extensions are super and thx for them
June 6th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Suggestion: on the Advanced tab, could you add units to help describe each field? e.g., What is "update frequency" -- seconds? minutes? hours? What about Tick Speed? milliseconds? pixels per second? That would help a fair amount, I should think.
Thanks for a great tool.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Originally the ticket did not show any icons. Now all of the icons are the RSS symbol. The feeds are from 2 different CNN feeds. Why the RSS symbol all of a sudden and why not the CNN symbol?
June 26th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Cool, i use google's talk gadget in firefox's sidebar, and when i "pop out" the gadget, RSS ticker runs in the gadget! :)
July 1st, 2007 at 9:17 am
OMG! I have just discovered that you can actually FF and REW if you just place the mouse pointer over the scroller and simply roll the mouse wheel! Thanks for that. This is really really good stuff.
July 1st, 2007 at 9:19 am
Hi
I was checking out this blog and seen this ticker thing and thought maybe you would like this.
Ruleforex
July 4th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Hello,
great ticker, thanx.
One error report: Sometimes it happens that it switches between rss feeds in period of one second and shows news titles without any horizontal movement, after going thru all of them, it continues with normal scrolling jobs.
I have some suggestions on stuff to implement:
User should be able to see rss news sorted by their release time, mixed from all news sources and not source after source like it is now.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:31 am
And another functionality suggestion:
User should be able to set how many times he wants to see the news titles. For example for me it is quite boring to see that the same news titles are still there. I am not going to read some news just to make them disappear.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
to: Mark an item as read by Ctrl-clicking on it.
please can you change it to middle click? it would be very usefull. i did it myself it was on line of code but i forgot where it was
July 5th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
also please can you set an option to limit maximum age of news? ihappens sometimes that some items are older than month
July 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Seems like even though I click "mark all as read", every time I open the browser, the same old feeds keep showing up. I do have the "hide items I've already read" selected.
Can anyone advise?
July 11th, 2007 at 2:26 am
@Marc R.: You're right. If you open a new browser window, all old feeds are displayed again. That makes RSS Ticker kind of useless for many cases.
July 11th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Feed icon does not show up for some feeds. This makes the feeds hard to separate. An example is CNN news. Great extension. Thanks.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Very useful extension, ive been using it for quite a while now and am quite pleased with it.
I do have one suggestion though, some feeds dont display an icon which makes it a bit difficult to see where headlines begin and end, if their was a small space between them or perhaps an option for custom icons then the headlines would be much easier to read.
July 28th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I love the ticker. My issue, however, is that it consumes A LOT of memory.. slows everything down considerably.
August 11th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Prior to RSS Ticker, I didn't know what use RSS feeds were for. With this extension, I'm loving them and keep adding more and more live bookmarks! :-)
But. I think I have the same problem as Matt above me, because whenever I'm watching an flv movie, e.g. at YouTube, and the RSS icon appears - and loads the ticker bar if there is any new feeds - the movie stutters considerably until the icon is gone. This is quite frustrating. Is there something you could do about it?
Thank you for this extension! :-)
August 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
This extension is great. I wish it had an Apply button so I could experiment with settings rather than having to reopen the Options dialog again and again. But mainly, I wish I could make the ticker double-height.
The scary thing is that I have desperately been searching for a news ticker application, and tried many of them. Yet this Firefox extension works better than all the others I've tried. I rrrreally don't want a ticker that is tied to my browser (I want it up all the time!), but what can you do...
August 19th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I love this extension... but have not been able to use it ever since I started using Minefield (Firefox 3). Can you please make it compatible with Minefield. Thank you so much.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
This is a great extension, i've been using for nearly a year, it seemed like to perfect add-on to firefox! i became so accustom to having it there, that my browser now feels naked without it.
Unfortunately, i've also been chasing serious performance issues with my computer for that same amount of time. CPU usage pegs at 100% and the computer starts performing worse than a 486. i tracked the issue back to firefox and more specifically to this extension.
Please fix it! i'm going nuts not seeing news headline scrolling across the bottom of my screen, distracting me from doing my work!
August 24th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I started using this extension after experiencing some difficulties with InfoRSS. RSSTicker seems to be very good but it has one quite disturbing feature.
I wan't to monitor all the RSS feeds once in a minute. This works just fine but the scroller position resets always when the feeds are updated. This is very annoying and happens even if you are pointing the heading with a mouse.
Thank you for this great extension!
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:08 am
Hi,
thank you for this great little thing! It is simple, clear-cut, fairly easy to use, and almost exactly what I have been looking for.
My only
feature wish is: have three options for the
item-status, i.e.
"unread" (bold font),
"opened" (standard font) (but show again next time I open Firefox)
"never show again" (via context menu option)
The only other thing: I go along with Alphaman's
Suggestion (June 6th):
on the Advanced tab, could you add units to help describe each field? e.g., What is “update frequency” — seconds? minutes? hours? What about Tick Speed? milliseconds? pixels per second? ...
In short: just some few words more showing up on the Settings interface, and most of the questions in the above posts would be answered.
Anyway: probably my favourite of the year (errmm,... along with Personal Menu)
Greetings
StephanB
September 20th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Looks like Chris is not necessarily reading feedback here. I'm speculating heavilty here, but see if he posts something new in the "category" http://www.chrisfinke.com/category/rss-ticker/ (hmm, no way to subscribe to an individual category as RSS, how convenient) if you want to post feedback.
According to http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/04/29/rss-ticker-finally-updated-to-19/ all option bugs should be fixed (but I still don't see units on the dialog boxes, as requested in comment #24) and the code has been optimized somewhat (but I still had it kill my Firefox last night).
September 25th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Excellent add on, but I am also experiencing CPU usage issues.
It always used to use about 10% CPU, but then after an update to the google toolbar a few months ago, it started using 100% CPU constantly.
I disabled the ticker and have been without, and missing it for the last few months.
Disabling the google toolbar also solves the problem and puts CPU usage back to ~10% but I use the google toolbar a lot, although as I write this I am considering keeping it disabled and using the ticker again!!
Hope this helps someone, and maybe goes towards fixing the problem if its a bug in the ticker and not a bug with the google toolbar.
Keep up the good work!
James.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I am a heavy user of tabs. I find that with many browser windows with many tabs open, this extension -- sadly -- is next to unusable. User-interface problems aside (the author apparently hasn't considered the use case that you might have several Firefox windows open), the browser became so unresposive as to be nearly unusable, and eventually crashed during the night.
Coincidentally, looks like the author is not monitoring comments here very actively. See if you can find a recent post in http://www.chrisfinke.com/category/rss-ticker/ to respond to instead of posting anything here.
November 18th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Hi.
First I would like to thank you for this great addon to Firefox. I would like however to ask you for a feature that would be very usefull to everybody that is using the rss ticker: add an option to make old and unread feed to dissapear anyway after an amount of time decided by the user in the Options panel (something like 1 day, 1 week, 30 minutes).
Thank you and keep up the good work.
Regards,
Dragos
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Thanks for an excellent firefox plugin, just as a suggestion would it be possible for normal bookmarks to be addable to the ticker? So I could possibly have a mix of RSS news and regular bookmarks?
November 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I LOVE my RSS ticker... my boss doesn't love it quite as much since I'm terribly ADD and end up ditching my work load to peek at my feeds.
Anyway.. same request as #47. I end up with old posts and such quite a bit and it irritates me. Not that my personal feelings of irritation should concern you overly much, but just think about the poor engineers and developers I end up beating up when I'm irritated! Feel their pain!
;)
December 16th, 2007 at 2:00 am
This is very nice addon to Firefox. I use it for months. But still I do not understand "update frequency" ? When I put 1 it seems equal as I put 99. What are the limits. I want to have a high changing. Same question as 24 and 43 ?
Regards, and keep up the good work
Jani
December 19th, 2007 at 8:54 am
In Fx3b1 and b2, the tooltips of the ticker entries are often too narrow, so that the tooltip text is cut off or wrapped making the tooltip very long vertically.
Everything else seems to work, though! :-)
January 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Could it be possible to have an option to link 'mark as read' under the third (middle) mouse button? That would make it even better.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Hello!
First thanks for this nice Extension!
Is it possible to Change "right-Click" and "left-Click" to "read feed in new tab" and "mark as read"?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english ;-)
February 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I'm also experiencing difficulty with the favicon.....on sites such as cnn, the icon doesn't load in the ticker, although I know http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico exists. Even more, inforss displays the cnn favicon in its feed! But I would much rather use rss ticker, it's so simple and easy. Is there a workaround/fix for this?
February 19th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I'm also having the same trouble as others.....basically, the favicon don't appear on some feeds like cnn, even though I know http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico exists. What's more, is that inforss displays cnn's favicon in its ticker! But I'd much rather use rss ticker, it's so much simpler and easier to use.....is there a workaround/fix for this?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Is there a way to "downgrade" to a previous version of this without getting constantly annoyed into updating it? It was working fine until ten minutes ago when I updated it, now the RSS icon that appears while it's loading the feeds is a misshapen rectangle, and it makes Firefox's cpu usage shoot up freezing my PC until the feeds are marked as read and disappear completely. Marking them as read isn't easy either, as it's causing Firefox to stop responding.
This is the only RSS feed addon that's actually worth using (in my opinon), but I have no intention of creating a new profile, or removing and reinstalling all my addons one at a time to find out what the conflict is. (That seems to be the only "support" I get whenever any addon causes a problem.) That's fine, as I understand that you can't test it with every combination of addons in existence, but I really don't care enough to bother with that. I'd really just like it to work exactly the way it did until a few minutes ago, as it was perfect.
Using the old one that worked fine is much better than removing it completely, but removing it completely is much better than me having to find out what's wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am
Same problem here!
I updated to 2.0pre today. The option "Hide items you've already read' is checked.
But no new items appear... nothing. The RSS Ticker is hidden as if is empty. But I checked the feeds they are full of new items.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:18 am
I upgraded to RSS-ticker 2.0pre, and i have a slight problem with it. It only loads 3 of my 22 feeds, and just keeps loading, and loading, and loading, but nothing happens, it's constantly at "3/22 feeds loaded"
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 am
This RSS-ticker 2.0pre is so far a great add-on FULL STOP I have encountered a problem though. When I view the feeds from the information week part of it gets cut off towards the right side. I have to guess what the actual sentence should read. Strangely though the summary continues into the next line leaving that right side of the sentence missing! Could you provide a solution for this? Keep up the excellent and I look forward to great developments. Peace...
March 4th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Okay, i fixed my own problem. I had 1 feed that was not functioning, so the ticker couldn't load it (Firefox did load all but the one) I just deleted the not functioning one, and nwo all works fine.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
We at Unixservice would like to contribute some code to add date/time info to the summary (or other areas.) We need to be able to quickly view when RSS submitted items arrived.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
RSS Ticker rocks! Love it. Well done. There's only one thing I find annoying. Old news. I mark news as read, it disappears, but on my next Firefox session there it is again & all that is old is new again! I would also like the ability to say something like "don't show me news that is older than days old" (because a 90 day old bulletin is old, not new!).
March 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Marc, would your problem get fixed if you wouldn't clear your firefox cache/history after each session ?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Hi Developers,
I like this add-on.
Such great features it has.
Thanks
March 17th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I'm having the exact same problems as "me" described on February 29th.
Please fix this. My best add-on suddenly became useless :-(
March 20th, 2008 at 7:09 am
My problem with this excellent piece of Firefox extension is about its refresh/update frequency
By default the Ticker Speed is 12, the Ticker Smoothness Speed is 200 and the Ticker Update Frequency is 30 (minutes). When I change the Update Freq., everything (still) works fine. When I also change the Ticker Speed en Smoothness Speed, RSS Ticker doesn't refresh/update any longer. When I change Speed and Smoothness back to the default settings, RSS Ticker starts refresh/update again at the given Update Frequency. What I really want is: Ticker Speed = 1, Ticker Smoothness = 300, Ticker Update Freq. = 5 minutes. For me this combination is the best but RSS Ticker does not "accept" it for some reason. I'm using RSS Ticker 2.0.1.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I also have the very same problem as me and me too. It would be really nice if you could find a way to fix that, as the RSS Ticker is truly the best RSS extension for FF.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I, too, have the very same problem as me and me too. It would be really nice if you could find a way to fix that, as the RSS Ticker is truly the best RSS extension for FF.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:39 am
I encountered the same problem as #56 kml: more than half of my feeds do not show up in the ticker any more, even when I see new articles in the live-bookmarks to be updated. BTW: Feed Sidebar shows the same defect.
For all the disappointed: the old versions are available at https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addons/versions/2325 - download the xpi - deinstall actual RSSTicker (2.x) - drag the xpi file into the Add-On dialog - restart.
1.9.5 works fine for me :-)
March 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
# 68. Another me,
Thank you!!!
After reverting to 1.9.5 all my feeds are once again ticking in quite happily :-)
March 28th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Great add-on!! Nice work!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:06 am
I'd like to thank "another me" (#69) for the link. Switching back to 1.9.5 has fixed the misshapen rss logo displayed while loading feeds, and the problem with FF freezing completely for minutes.
Hopefully whatever is causing the problem will be fixed/changed back in a future version, but in the meantime I can at least continue to use it without having to enable/disable the addon.
Many thanks. :)
April 4th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place to post problems.
Whenever I hover over the pulsating thingy at the top-right hand corner of my browser, it tells me "Loaded 9/16 feeds" and stops there. How can I get it to display all my feeds?
A reply would be appreciated
- you have my email address :D
Other than that, cheers from the U.K in developing an ace add-on!
April 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Is there any way to add a second ticker?
April 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am
RSS Ticker does not to show items from this feed in my Firefox 3b5 on Ubuntu 8.04 RC1:
http://rss1.mediafed.com/feed/quotenmeter/quotenmeter
April 19th, 2008 at 9:01 am
It seems like that was my fault, sorry for any confusion. The feed address redirects to another one and that one does work in RSS Ticker, so this problem is solved for me. Firefox itself also works with the address given above though.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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April 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
First thanks for great ad-on.
I have one problem: when I choose the third time "Open feed in new tabs" this opens ALL feeds and no only the chosen feed.
And one suggestion: after "Open feed in new Tabs" is it possible to make the first opened tab active? As it is when you make "Open all in tabs" on the tabs order.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I love this add-on.
It would be awesome if you had more then one feed you can view them as independent tickers stacked one above the other, each with there own controls.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 am
Still works with Firefox 3 RC1, although there's a slight problem with the way it displays the preview - the box is too big. Other than that, it's perfect.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I've used the ticker in the past but uninstalled when I was having conflicts (don't know if this ticker was the cause or not). Now I use the GoogleReader as my default rss adding device and that causes conflict when I want to add a subscription to my live bookmarks. But even when I try to add a subscription manually I am still out of luck because the bookmark folder will only let me have one item in it. It's possible that I am doing something wrong, but i do have a bit of experience with this add-on (and others) and I've tried several ways to correct or work around the problem. All I haven't tried is removing googlereader as my default adding mechanism but I don't want to do that and that still shouldn't create so much of a conflict or break other methods for adding rss subscriptions to my live bookmarks (which again only allows one site into the folder).
May 24th, 2008 at 1:01 am
I would really love if this addon supported multiple tickers at variable speeds for up to about five feeds. I don't like having more than one feed on the same ticker because it takes way too long to go through them all and restart from the beginning.
Something else you may want to look into (though it isn't terribly important) is the ability to click and drag the ticker back and forth. Or even just reverse and fast forward buttons on either end.
This is one of my favorite addons because it's so simply but incredibly useful so keep up the great work.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:28 am
[...] - Bietet eine Reihe von Aktionen zur einfache Handhabung ausgew?hlten Textes per Rechtsklick. - RSS Ticker 2.0.2 - Scrolls your RSS feeds (Live Bookmarks) in a toolbar. - Searchbar Autosizer [de] 1.3.7 - [...]
June 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
i really like you addon :)
but i like to clear my Firefox history too ... and then all feeds are "unreaded"
would it be possible to clear the history but not the visited feeds?
and another nice thing ;) ...would it be possible to seperate the feeds ... hmm ... like they are in the folders ;)
+ Feed A
|- News 1
|- News 2
+ Feed B
|- News 1
Feed A: News 1 News 2 | Feed B: News 1 |
something in that way ... i dont know how to explain that in english
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
Great add-on ... thanks.
Needs a [x] button on each scrolling item to mark an item as read with a single Left Mouse Button click or perhaps a Middle Mouse Button click to mark an item as read would be better for some ... Control + Left Mouse Button method requires both hands to accomplish this very frequent task.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 am
need a bug fix,
feed marked as read are marked unread at each firefox's launch
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
Works brilliantly with FF3. Many thanks for the effort.
On request for an enhancement; make middle click an alternative for "Rark as read".
June 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
hi,
thanks for having such a nice ad-on all the time surfing with ff 2...unfortunatly, its not working with the newest version (3.0)...could it be a problem caused by an "regional-browser-version"?
when i try to install, a box pops up and says that this ad-on is not compatible with ff3...
viele grüße aus deutschland...
June 26th, 2008 at 7:32 am
[...] RSS Ticker toma los feeds que tengas almacenados en tus LiveBookmarks y los muestra en una cinta informativa mientras tú navegas. La extensión no es intrusiva, pues la cinta puede colocarse en la parte inferior o superior de la pantalla. La extensión es personalizable en casi todos sus elementos, como por ejemplo la velocidad a la que pasarán los avisos, la cantidad de feeds que incluirá la muestra, etc. [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 2:50 am
Hello,
I'm using RSS ticker (and it's a great add-on) since the old 1.9 version)
Now I'm back to the 2.0.2 version since the new 2.0.3 is unable to display the preview of the news when you put the mouse pointer on the scrolling item.
Despite this new bug (?) it's a great add-on. I'm no more able to use Firefox without it
I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4 on a Linux system ( but this bug occurs also on the RSS Ticker for Firefox on WinXP )
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Could a feature be added to allow each feed to have a separate update time? Such that feeds that updated frequently could be checked more often and less frequent ones would be spared the server load; this could be either manual or something very fancy and automatic could be implemented based on average hits found when updating.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Great add-on. Two requests, if they are not possible already:
- Option to change the background and font colors.
- Some feeds have pictures in them, but I have not seen this add-on pick them up yet.
In any case, thank you for your work!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
[...] RSS Ticket Statuszeile Link Summaryhttps://addons.mozill.../de/firefox/addon/216http://ted.mielczarek...mozilla/extensiondev/http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/rss-ticker/ [...]
July 27th, 2008 at 7:30 am
[...] RSS Ticker is a free download for all platforms that can run FireFox. Awesome app Chris! Keep up the amazing work. [ChrisFinke] [...]
July 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am
hello,
since a few days ago (don't know exactly) my rss ticker doesn't work anymore, doesn't show anything. if i place it below status bar there comes nothing, if i place it below bookmark toolbar it shows an empty space. feed update icon stays busy all the time. de- + re-installing and trying out dozens of different settings and options didn't help.
does anybody else have these problems?
is there any known problem in interaction with other add-ons?
i have ABP, CS Lite, external IP, fireuploader, Fireshot, Flagfox, flashblock, IE Tab, Image zoom, LastTab, Layerblock, LinkAlert, NoScript, PicLens, ShowIP, UnWrapText, WOT.... on vista home premium.
all of these worked with rssTicker before, no problems, no major changes, some updates lately.
any ideas? who can help? i like this ticker a lot, don't want to be without it
tripleArated
July 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am
ok, i got it!
it's LAYERBLOCK, an addon that blocks annoying layer ads which nomally can't be blocked by APB.
layerblock seems to be a bit too mighty, interprets rssTicker as layer ad, hmpf.
well, i deactivated layerblock for now, gonna contact its author to see if this issue can be solved.
so long, have a nice day, tripleArated
August 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Hi.
Great Add-on. It took me ages trying different RSS feed readers to find one that did exactly what I wanted.
I haven't had any problems with it at all, but wondered whether you had any plans to include the following:
1) Configurable right/middle click behaviour. (such as mark as read on middle click etc)
2) Ability to drag ticker forwards and backwards.
3) Ability to synchronise read items across multiple machines, so when marked read on one, is known to be read on another.
Great plugin again.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Nice addon!
I'd like to see a more traditional ticker look if you could rig that up somehow with a bunch of dots that light up (yellow, green or multicolor even?)... it gives a bad flicker effect on my slow LCD screen. Unfortunately the un-smooth movement is also hard to read for some reason.
I think this was mentioned before, but I'd also like to see the ability to organize the feeds more than just 1 line.
It's good as is, though... better than a lot out there.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am
RSS Ticker is great extension! But...
I'm using RSS Ticker v1.9 in Firefox 2.0.0.16. Version 2.x also have tooltip bug in 2.0.0.16, so I reverted to 1.9.
And, RSS Ticker doesn't work in Flock - I think it cannot see bookmarks (in Flock they are called Favorites). Is it possible somehow to make it work in Flock?
Greets,
Misirac
September 9th, 2008 at 2:03 am
RSS ticker is great.
I can now use RSS to search for and watch eBay items. Mousing over shows current bid and auction end time - brilliant!
It would be useful if the options could be changed so that:
* Un-read items shown in bold
* Read items not bold
* Read items I'm no longer interested in can be right clicked and hidden
Thanks again.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
i love the sound of this, but its missing two important features, the ability to filter rss feed results to include/exclude certain keywords.
paul.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I would second what Paul says (comment 102). I would love to see that feature. Even better would be not to use keywords, but regular expressions. That way I could really control what could be included in the ticker.
Overall though, great work! IMHO, this is the best way to deal with feeds.