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Sync and Mobile

Posted Jun 13, 2013 3:53 UTC (Thu) by cibyr (subscriber, #87609)
Parent article: RSS feed reading in Firefox

For me, the killer feature of Google Reader is that it remembers what I've already read regardless of what device I'm on (home, work, mobile, etc). It's unclear from the writeup if any of the mentioned solutions offer this feature. I can't imagine many of the work well on a phone.

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Posted Jun 13, 2013 6:09 UTC (Thu) by ahuillet (guest, #40848) [Link] (2 responses)

I have the same requirement as you have - and I found a solution with rss2email. It delivers the RSS elements in my IMAP mailbox, which is accessible from all devices and keeps track of what was read and what wasn't.

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Posted Jun 13, 2013 13:18 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

I had been on Feedly, but it has suddenly refused to push links to Twitter.
I confess I may have over-snarked.

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Posted Jun 22, 2013 20:31 UTC (Sat) by jimparis (guest, #38647) [Link]

Twitter API version 1 was retired two days before your post -- so if something Twitter-related stopped working, that's probably why.

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Posted Jun 13, 2013 14:26 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

Sorry; I may not have thought to mention that since I probably subconsciously regard it as a given (as you would with read/unread email). I believe MicroRSS was the only extension I tried that did not track read/unread behavior, though I've uninstalled it since.

As to how much of that gets preserved across Firefox Sync, I'd worry about the extensions that don't store content locally, but to be honest in recent months I've been having a lot of trouble with Sync losing other things that it's allegedly tracking -- like History -- so I may not be able to speak to that before I figure out what the Sync problem is.... My guess is profile corruption, but it's just a guess.

Nate