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brief

RSS reader extension for Firefox

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
242GitHub stars
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What it is

RSS reader extension for Firefox

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-10-12 15:40:27 UTC to 2021-07-03 03:21:33 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I tried out Brief. It looks nice but there are a couple of problems: 1) There also doesn't seem to be a way to sort them by date or alphabetical order or domain.[0][1] 2) It seems like it should be possible to 'group' feeds, but I couldn't figure out how. 3) When Firefox updates certain things break I think as a result of this I will try out newsboat. I found this tutorial[2] that seems to explain it nicely. [0]: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief/issues/208 [1]: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief/issues/383 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFCRqs822w
In RSS Is Better Than Twitter
For everyone looking for an alternative, Brief is an excellent add-on and I've been using it for the last 2 years: AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/ GitHub: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief It also includes a `Page action` so that an RSS icon is shown in the address bar on sites that support RSS/Atom. Great for discovery. Edit: Really strange, that `Brief` is missing in the curated list of readers that mozilla is linking to from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement... as alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/mozilla... (This looks like a really poor list) I've seen `Brief` recommended all the time by users. I don't really mind that Firefox removes its RSS support: It was missing many features anyway and had a really poor UX.
In Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds

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