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Patched FireFox RSS Editor

Sat, 19 Dec 2009

RSS Editor is a great extension for Firefox that adds functionality to allow you to edit (doh!) RSS files. It supports both local and remote file editing (although not over SSL) and is brilliant for simple RSS tasks. At both the Centre for GIS and CEESR I have implemented a simple news aggregator on the front page that formats news feeds from RSS. This is one of the easiest ways of getting a news feed on a website.

Unfortunately RSS Editor was only updated to early alpha versions of version 3.x and currently doesn't work. If you read the feedback on the extension's page you'll see someone has fixed the code (in rssio.js) to get it working; this is in the form of a patch file which I couldn't get to work on Windows. However I have fixed the bug manually and made it available here. Enjoy!

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