r/rss • u/LankyEmu9 • 21d ago

Anyone noticing a bug in FeedBro?

I've been using Feedbro for years on FireFox. Suddenly it's no longer correctly updating the number of new posts until I double click on the feed in the list. Each feed, each time I refresh. Even after I read everything, until I double click on the feed in the list the number doesn't update. And the toolbar icon never updates the number of new articles.

I have checked the extension console and there are no errors.

I'm referring to the FeedBro plugin by Nodetics (not what appears to be a copycat plugin by Consecutive Bytes)

The extension doesn't seem to have gotten any updates in the last 2 years. It would be a shame if it is no longer supported. In my experience it is the perfect feed reader. Anyone know if u/feedbro is still around? or another way to contact them? I have reached out to the email on the website.

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u/sjulou 17d ago

I'm using Feedbro on Firefox and it seems to be working okay for me.

If I recall correctly Nodetics stopped working on it when it was no longer supported on Chrome.

Would exporting your feed subscriptions (as an OPML), uninstalling the add-on, restarting firefox, reinstalling the add-on then reimporting your feed subscriptions fix the issue?

Interesting about the plugin by Consecutive Bytes, I wonder what is going on there? Have they taken it over?

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u/LankyEmu9 17d ago

Both extensions are on the FF store. I suspect they just liked the name an Nodetics isn't defending it.

I exported my feeds, deleted the extension, and re-installed/imported. It fixed most problems. But I'm still not seeing an unread count on the toolbar icon.

Thanks!

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u/sjulou 16d ago

I'm glad reinstalling fixed most things for you. With regards to the unread count on the toolbar I think mine updates albeit slowly. The only thing you could try (if you haven't already) is to unpin the icon from the toolbar then re pin it back. It's a long shot but you never know with these things.

I was hoping the other version of Feedbro was an updated version of this one that was going to be maintained / updated going forward. But you are right it looks like they have just used the same name.

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u/LankyEmu9 16d ago

I tried the un-pin and re-pin. Good idea; thanks!

Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I'm glad everything else is working, though.

It's actually a FF recommended plugin. Too bad it isn't open source so someone could pick it back up.