Feedbro

I read some positive reviews of the Feedbro extension for Firefox. The extension is an RSS feed reader.

I glanced only briefly at the extension when looking for a NewsFox replacement. After surrendering the idea of disabling IndexedDB, I thought a fresh look at Feedbro was in order.

After installing Feedbro I was harassed immediately with a sliding popup that something was corrupt with my Firefox profile. The popup was not permanent and did not provide sufficient time to fully read and comprehend. I needed to relaunch Firefox several times to read and understand the entire message. Corrupt? Get real developers. Configured in an unexpected manner? Possibly. Is a meaningful and actually helpful error message too much to ask developers?

For a quick work-around I created a new profile. No silly popup. I exported my feeds from QuiteRSS and imported into Feedbro. The OPML file imported fine.

I poked around the configuration. I was dismayed at how little can be configured. I could not find a three-pane layout like I use in QuiteRSS and used in NewsFox. Quickly I was frustrated simply trying to use Feedbro.

I stopped poking around and investigated the allegedly corrupt profile bug. Eventually I learned that Feedbro fails to function unless all cookies are enabled.

I need cookies enabled to fetch RSS feeds?

My reply was a straightforward Will Smith, “Hell no.”

So ended my short test of Feedbro.

Why do people create such horrid software? Why do people rave about such horrid software?

Posted: March 30, 2020 Category: Usability Tagged: Firefox

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