Comments on: How I Use Opera’s Built-in RSS Aggregator http://rickyspears.com/blog/2005/01/how-i-use-operas-built-in-rss-aggregator/ Empower. Challenge. Advance. Tue, 15 May 2012 12:19:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anita Lewis http://rickyspears.com/blog/2005/01/how-i-use-operas-built-in-rss-aggregator/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Anita Lewis Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:22:17 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/?p=29#comment-120 I used Opera for a few years in both Windows and Linux. Several months ago I switched to Firefox. One of the things I don't like about Opera is that it does not allow one to use the WYSIWYG editors on the web like in Wikis. I use Wikis quite a lot so Opera is not a choice for me. Firefox has a huge number of extensions. One of them is Sage which is good for doing RSS. RSS is also available in Thunderbird which is what I use for mail. It sits as one of my mail account folders on the left pane. I saw this morning that you had a new post here, because it was bolded just like new mail is. I have yours set to show me the page in Thunderbird when I click on it. I'm liking using Thunderbird better than Sage for this. Opera is a great browser and maybe better than Firefox in some ways, but Firefox and Thunderbird have a huge number of very easily installed extensions that are great. Two examples: Firefox - EditCSS. Right click and chose it to turn it on. The CSS for the page appears in a panel on the left. Change the CSS and change the look of the page. Copy and paste from the panel to an editor window and you have a new CSS page. This is very handy for doing web design. Thunderbird - Quick File. Highlight a message. Alt-Q. Begin typing the folder name you want to put it in. A drop-down list appears as you type showing you matches. Select the one you want and enter to put the message in that folder. I have 4 accounts in my folder list and a bunch of folders in each. This is a lot faster for me than drag and drop to move things after I've read them to their file folder. See some of these at: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/ Oh, I almost forgot BlogIt... Well, you can see it there. Anita I used Opera for a few years in both Windows and Linux. Several months ago I switched to Firefox. One of the things I don’t like about Opera is that it does not allow one to use the WYSIWYG editors on the web like in Wikis. I use Wikis quite a lot so Opera is not a choice for me.

Firefox has a huge number of extensions. One of them is Sage which is good for doing RSS. RSS is also available in Thunderbird which is what I use for mail. It sits as one of my mail account folders on the left pane. I saw this morning that you had a new post here, because it was bolded just like new mail is. I have yours set to show me the page in Thunderbird when I click on it. I’m liking using Thunderbird better than Sage for this.

Opera is a great browser and maybe better than Firefox in some ways, but Firefox and Thunderbird have a huge number of very easily installed extensions that are great. Two examples:

Firefox – EditCSS. Right click and chose it to turn it on. The CSS for the page appears in a panel on the left. Change the CSS and change the look of the page. Copy and paste from the panel to an editor window and you have a new CSS page. This is very handy for doing web design.

Thunderbird – Quick File. Highlight a message. Alt-Q. Begin typing the folder name you want to put it in. A drop-down list appears as you type showing you matches. Select the one you want and enter to put the message in that folder. I have 4 accounts in my folder list and a bunch of folders in each. This is a lot faster for me than drag and drop to move things after I’ve read them to their file folder.

See some of these at: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/

Oh, I almost forgot BlogIt… Well, you can see it there.

Anita

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