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Sometimes Firefox runs into an RSS feed that it doesn't recognize as an
RSS feed, in which case you can manually make a Live Bookmark out of it.
Here's how:

1. Click the Bookmarks item on your browser menu, and then click the

Manage Bookmarks option. he Bookmarks Manager File menu pro-
vides the option to add a Live Bookmark.

2. Add any RSS feed you want.

Firefox extensions
Firefox supports additions to the Firefox program that give it additional
functionality. here are places to download these extensions all over the
Web, but I recommend you get them directly from the Firefox site: https://
addons.mozilla.org.

Here I discuss just a couple of useful Firefox extensions related to RSS.
For a full overview of all the cool things you can do with Firefox and its
extensions, I heartily recommend Firefox and hunderbird Garage , by John
Hedtke, Chris Hofmann, and Marcia Knous.

As of this writing, there are several diferent RSS extensions on Firefox (prob-
ably even more will have been added by the time this topic goes to press):

Wizz RSS. I like Wizz RSS, which you can check out at https://addons.
mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=424. Once installed (and it's a
quick install), Wizz RSS lets you read and manage RSS feeds. You can access
it from the Tools option on Firefox's main menu or by pressing Alt + W. It
looks a little like a page frame ( Figure 2.16 ). I recommend this solution
when you have a low or moderate number of RSS feeds you want to moni-
tor—perhaps you want to put your most critical feeds here so you always
have them at hand.

I don't want to give you a huge tutorial on Wizz RSS, but let me make a few
points that may not be obvious.

here's a public and private list in the Wizz RSS panel, which you open by
clicking one of the two icons that look like monitor screens in the Wizz
toolbar. In order to use the private list, though, you'll need to have a Wizz
account, which you can create from the Options Etc menu on the Wizz
toolbar ( Figure 2.17 ).