I'm not sure for how long Firefox has been reading RSS feeds, anyway today I discovered the feature called live bookmarks.

They are using the bookmarks concept to visualize RSS. Basically all items with a title in a feed are displayed as bookmarks (and, of course, automatically updated). Here's how bookmarks in my top bar look like after adding 3 feeds:



Adding feeds is very easy, if a site incorporates the meta data in its code, an RSS icon automatically appears in a corner of the window*.

I have always thought of RSS as a way to transfer contents, not links, so I'm not sure about how much sense this implementation does. It's good that browsers are becoming RSS aware, and it's also good that different developers are doing it in different ways, I appreciate the fact that somebody like the 3 panes approach, somebody (me, for example) like the "all posts in a long page" approach, other will probably like this bookmark approach.

Btw, my RSS feeds don't work with Firefox, I get a "Live Bookmark Feed Failed to Load" error. :-(

* It would be nice to be able to click on the RSS icon and subscribe in my aggregator of choice.