I have to say that i don't really understand what's so well liked about live bookmarks.

They seem so limited when you have something like the sage extension to compare to them. Not quite a bookmark and not quite a feed reader. Without some of the benifts of both.

But hey, so long as it's seen as a plus point by most and helps increase Firefox popularity i'm all for it. :)

Paul, Live Bookmarks are not intended for every RSS feed power user.

I'm a feed power user. I couldn't get by on RSS Bokmarks alone. Sage is a complete toy to me. Even many of the powerful standalone feed readers don't come close to supporting my needs.

I use Thunderbird and the Forumzilla extension where I aggregate a couple dozen feeds, including dynamic search results feeds from Feedster up to an IMAP server so I can access it from any machine in the world and where I do massive filtering for foldering and categorization. Then I use URIid to dynamically append unique IDs to HTML views of blogs that only offer remote content so I can do nifty stuff in a userContent.css file like hide blogrolls and banners and other useles content I don't want to see. I filter and manually move various remote content feeds into local folders for archiving and I often conveniently forward feed contents in normal mail messages. Formuzilla+Thunderbird is an extremely powerful tool, but for me, this extremely powerful tool is barely sufficient.

My mom, she's another story. She wants to be able to see the latest CNN headlines right there in the browser with just a click or two. She wants to be able to keep an eye on her son's weblog every once in a while. For her, and 95% of the web browsing world who aren't feed power users like me, Live Bookmarks are awesome.

--Asa

Asa you have a cool mom.

Haha...

Live bookmarks are good for 'lite' users, but I guess for the rest of us there's Sage and such... and thats one of the awesome things about firefox. You can make the browser what you want it to be- if you want it to be an rss reader, bam you got it- want a calender? done. Gota love it.

If it could work with RSS feed of espn, I don't think I need anything else for, ah..., one week. :-) To be serious, is your firefox working with the RSS feed of espn? If not, is it the fault of espn?

cyfer, it works for me :) you can see a screenshot of it working here.

--Asa

Fair enough Asa point taken, you've won me round. :)

As a side note bah and damn at AOL, apparently they are making a stand alone browser, you'd expect geko at it's core right? Wrong >> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1668477,00.asp

I treat live bookmarks as exactly that. I live-bookmark feeds I don't want to read every entry of but want to hand (such as news headlines) and use Thunderbird for weblogs.

My mom by her own admission can't even turn a computer on.

So Live Bookmarks are great for her! Live People doing things for her. CNN Newscaster, etc. etc. :-D

It'd be cool if whenever there was an livebookmark compatible feed on a page, if all the links from it were added to the top of the livebookmark icon on the status bar.

so say there are 3 feeds, called "rss 1.0", "rss 2.0" and "atom", and they contained the links "bleh", "fred", "frank" then when you click on the livebookmark statusbar icon it would say
bleh
fred
frank
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add "rss 1.0" bookmark
add "rss 2.0" bookmark
add "atom" bookmark

it would be another quick way to navigate a site :)

Downloaded a latest version, RSS of ESPN is working for me.