Thunderbird Workaround for RSS
07.12.07 - 02:38pm
I was hitting a bug with T-bird’s RSS reader, which I think I have now finally worked around. I have not been able to add new feeds for some time; and previously I had hit a bug where my feeds stopped updating. I fixed that by (wrongly) deleting the feeditems.rdf file from my T-bird profile. That seemed to cause other problems that I don’t officially claim to understand.
Today, I exported my feeds, created a new RSS account, imported my feeds to that, and then deleted my old RSS account. This works brilliantly and I was able to add new feeds immediately to the new account. (Including a feed that required HTTP Basic Authentication, which I hadn’t been able to use at all previously)
It’s worth mentioning that I had tried out ThunderBrowse as a way to work around the HTTP Auth problem I was having, but it seems not to handle HTTP Auth requests at all. Too bad; ThunderBrowse could be really neat with a little bit of massaging; I hope it gets it.
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