I’ve Found my New Feed Reader

I read a lot of weblogs and news sites that publish articles on a frequent basis. You can read these sites on your web browser, or you can use a feed reader like I’ve blogged about before. I tried Blam! which didn’t work out so well, and then I switched to Sage in Firefox which worked OK, but today I found a new one and I think it’s going to stick around for a while. It’s Opera!

“But, hey, isn’t Opera a web browser too? I though you used Firefox,” you say.

That’s true, but I noticed on Slashdot that Opera is celebrating their 10th anniversary, and they were giving out free registration codes. I used to use Opera, and I was interested enough in Opera to download and try it again. I discovered, in back-tracking all my Tower Software subscribers that Opera has awesome feed support. I am just going to configure it as a sort-of dedicated feed reader, and keep on using Firefox as my web browser of choice.

Opera has really easy feed subscription, via a little RSS button in it’s address bar, and once you’ve subscribed to a feed, it works just like email. Plus, it has mouse gesture navigation, and is really fast. I used to love Opera before Firefox came out, and I may have a bit of former-user-bias with it, but I just haven’t been satisfied with any other reader yet.

I might also try Liferea at the indirect suggestion of Michael Still.