- Liferea
Infobox Software
name = Liferea
caption = Liferea browsing Linux related news
author = Lars Lindner
latest_release_version = 1.4.20
latest_release_date = 2008-09-28
operating_system =Linux ,BSD , Solaris
genre =news aggregator
license = GPL
website = [http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ liferea.sourceforge.net]Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a
news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists inOPML format. Liferea is intended to be a fast, easy to use, and easy to install news aggregator forGTK+ that can be used with theGNOME desktop.Liferea also supports
Podcasting .Pronunciation
The author of Liferea, who is German, pronounces the name of the software as IPA2|lifəreja. [http://liferea.blogspot.com/2007/06/64bit-test.html]
Distinguishing Features
Liferea distinguishes itself from other Unix feed readers by avoiding lots of package dependencies. It is written in C and uses no interpreter language.
To easily read linked articles or weblog comments Liferea allows to read websites using an embedded browser, which can be either Mozilla/Firefox/XulRunner or GtkHTML. Additionally the user can configure many predefined external browsers to open links with (e.g. Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Epiphany, Konqueror).
By sorting subscriptions into folders the user can read all headlines of a folder at once. By enabling a filtering preference all previously read headlines of the folder can be hidden.
Similar to the mail client Evolution Liferea support search folders, which allow the user to have permanent searches. Each search folder contains all headlines that do match its user-defined search rules.
Browser Integration
In Epiphany there is a news feed subscription extension, which allows to add news feeds when viewing websites.
For
Firefox 1.5+ there is an extension ( [http://liferea.sf.net/feedbag FeedBag] ), that allows to add subscriptions by simple clicking the LiveBookmarks icons in the Firefox address bar.Since
Firefox 2.0+ Liferea can be used without a special extension. To subscribe new feeds from within Firefox the Liferea helper script "liferea-add-feed" has to be configured in the Firefox feed subscription preferences.See also
*
List of feed aggregators External links
* [http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ Liferea Homepage]
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