# Firefox RSS reader panel


By Ben Ramsey

Published on March 17, 2004


I was hunting around today for a good RSS reader, when I found something called [Pluck](http://www.pluck.com/).  It sounded interesting enough, so I decided to check it out.  Boasting claims of no adware/spyware, I thought, "Well, maybe it's okay."  Still, claims or no claims, I am always wary of freeware.  Nonetheless, I wanted to see what it could do and whether it was what I wanted.  In short, it wasn't.  It was a plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer.  This planted another seed in my head.  "What if," thought I, "Mozilla has such an extension for Firefox?"  So, I proceeded to [Mozilla.org](http://www.mozilla.org).

I went to the [extensions page](https://addons.mozilla.org/) for [Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/), where I found an [RSS Reader Panel](http://sage.mozdev.org/) extension.  It works great for what I wanted.  I have now placed my entire blogroll into the panel, which pulls the RSS links from any specified bookmark folder.  It also provides a Feedster search bar, and it can import and export [OPML](http://www.opml.org/) files.  I'm thinking about exporting my <abbr title="Outline Processor Markup Language">OPML</abbr> files regularly and importing them into my blogroll on this site.  That way, I can keep both lists in sync.