Linefeed

SUMMARY

Linefeed is a personal start page that let's you display the headlines of your favorite RSS and Atom feeds in an organized fashion. Features: • Easily organize your feeds in tabs and columns, by dragging and dropping them. • Subscribe to new feeds by dragging and dropping feed links or by entering feed links manually. • Discover feeds in web pages you are visiting and be notified of them through Linefeed's browser toolbar icon. • Automatically display feeds if you happen to directly visit a feed's XML-page, so you can subscribe to them. • Backup and restore Linefeed data or exchange data with other feed readers, by importing or exporting OPML files. • The tabs can be displayed horizontally or vertically, in the corner of your choice. • Customize a feed's title and its link if they are not to your liking. • Choose the number of columns per tab or extension-wide. • Choose the number of headlines to show per feed, per tab or extension-wide. • Choose between wrapping or not wrapping feed headlines per feed, per tab or extension-wide. • Choose to show icons per feed, per tab or extension-wide. • Choose a foreground color that suits you best. • Choose a font size that suits you best. Currently available translations: • English (US) • Dutch (NL) • Italian (IT) provided by Michele Pezza (https://github.com/MichelePezza) Current limitations: • There's no scrolling mechanism for tab bar overflow yet. If you create more tabs than your screen size can show, you can't currently scroll through them. • There's no option to choose a background color yet. Changes since 0.0.9.2: New: • Show dimmed italic "untitled" placeholder to indicate feed has no title. • Added setting to show default icon for missing feed icons. • Minor copy changes. Fixed: • RSS feeds with version 0.9 were not recognized and could therefore not be read. • Bottom padding for scrollable settings dialog was not showing in Firefox. • Special characters, such as the ampersand, in tab names where unnecessarily encoded as html entities and prevented those pages from being selected. • Reverted previous mentioned incorrect special characters fix and fixed it properly. • Force text/xml Content-Type when loading feeds, because some servers incorrectly set text/html Content-Type for feeds. • Improved feed detection with aforementioned misconfigured servers. Translations: • [UPDATED] Italian translation provided by Michele Pezza (https://github.com/MichelePezza). Permissions justification: • tabs Needed to open Linefeed in a browser tab and to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds. • storage Needed to save your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings. • unlimitedStorage Needed to save an unlimited amount of your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings. • downloads Needed to show a "Save as..." dialog when exporting Linefeed data to an OPML file. • webRequest Needed to discover feeds on visited pages. • webRequestBlocking Needed to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds. • Hosts / Needed to discover feeds on visited pages.

The latest version of Linefeed is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 20 active users. The initial version was launched on 2020-09-13.

HOW TO INSTALL Linefeed FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Linefeed CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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