How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds
Audience: CFANS Employees who want to add RSS Feeds to their web browser
Applies to: Firefox 3.x
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to outline the steps necessary to set up the CFANS OIT RSS feeds, and by analogy any RSS feed, in Firefox.
What's Needed
- Firefox web browser
- An RSS feed you wish to subscribe to
Definitions
- RSS Feed
- Is most commonly referred to as "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary". RSS Feeds benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.
- Live Bookmarks
- This is the RSS Reader built into Firefox which you use to view RSS Feeds you have subscribed to.
Procedure Subscribing to an RSS Feed
- Launch Firefox
- Go to the site http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cfans/oit
- Look for the Subscribe to RSS Feeds section in the upper right corner with the RSS icon
- Click on one of the RSS Feed links to subscribe to the main feed or one of the individual feeds
- Choose Live Bookmarks and click on Subscribe Now
- Set a descriptive name for the bookmark
- Choose a folder in your Bookmarks to store the shortcut to the feed and click Add
Note: Adding the feed to the Bookmarks Toolbar will add a button to quickly access RSS Feeds from the toolbar instead of having to go through the Bookmarks menu.
Viewing RSS Feeds
- From the menu click on Bookmarks and select the bookmark name you created previously in step 6
- Click on a feed to load the page
References
For a more general explanation of RSS feeds: www.whatisrss.com
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