Comments on: Feed Sidebar 4.0 Released

By: JK

JK — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:29:38 +0000

Hello

First off, I love Feed Sidebar!

Second, I noticed with this recent update that when I open the Sidebar, all of the feed threads are open. I'm hoping this behavior can be changed back to closed threads.

Thank you!

By: NF

NF — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:21:46 +0000

Hi,

Feed Sidebar is great, and I use it all the time. I think it's extremely effective precisely because it's so simple and does exactly what it should.
One problem though, that started from version 4.0: I have several feeds that are in Hebrew, and all the Hebrew characters appear as gibberish. As I said, this didn't happen before version 4.0.
Here's a feed for example: http://www.hagada.org.il/hagada/html/backend.php
I guess it might be a problem for you to check if you can't read Hebrew and it all looks like gibberish to you... But I wonder if you might be able to compare the original feeds source with what appears in the side bar, in order to see the problem.
I'll be happy to supply more information if I can help.

Thanks again for a great extension.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:40:33 +0000

Unfortunately when I installed 4.0 it slowed my Firefox browser to a crawl. I had to disable as well. Tom San Diego Health Insurance

By: Dan the Samsung HDTV Man

Dan the Samsung HDTV Man — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:41:18 +0000

Ok, so you're saying that the feeds will be updated equally over the update time frame? So if I had 120 feeds and said I wanted them updated once an hour, then a single feed will be updated every 30 seconds? Did I get that right?

By: HDTV Reviews

HDTV Reviews — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:19:54 +0000

It sure has a memory leak and it drives me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Heart Patient Diet

Heart Patient Diet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:27:06 +0000

Ditto on the above comment, unless I'm getting some sort of memory conflict between plugins.

I may have to re-install a virgin copy of FF and try it that way, as I've 'lost control' with all the plugins already installed.

By: Martial Arts Dude

Martial Arts Dude — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:31:26 +0000

I have not experience the memory leak you mentioned. Maybe it is because I run a different operating system? Don't think that can be the case, but I'll remmeber to disable Feed Sidebar if I experience the same problem in the future

By: atrigent

atrigent — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:32:02 +0000

Hi! I've been using this extension for a while, and it's mostly great. However, some comments:

This extension doesn't work well with multiple Firefox windows open. It looks as if it checks each feed once for each window open, instead of just checking it once and updating all of the windows based on that. The list of feeds/articles is not the same for each window. The little notification pop-ups are also displayed for each window, rather than for Firefox as a whole.

The other problem is this memory leak people have been reporting. I should probably do more testing, but I'm pretty sure feed sidebar is the cause.