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>IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests.

This is a really interesting idea. Has there been any talk in Chrome development about building a browser-side RSS reader? Google would still get all the information they get from Reader now but they'd be making the 'feature' exclusive to their browser. This coming not long after Apple removed their feed managing ability in the web browser, meaning they could get a load of Chrome converts on OS X just from that.

It'd be really interesting to see what happened if browser-side RSS became "the thing" again. Although, as julien pointed out, doing it browser-side doesn't necessarily mean your RSS isn't in the hands of a commercial interest.



It was tried, IIRC, early in Firefox's development. It ended up being scrapped for some reason, and it didn't really work all that well.

Opera has a feed reader, too, but I never really found it to be as usable as Thunderbird or Akregator (neither of which I really like.)


I don't think it was completely scrapped. I know some people who use live bookmarks.




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