Fireriver

This is an experiment at building a magical River of news in Firefox.

It's probably not worth using right now; but it might look like this:

Tips / Notes / Goals

• Fireriver will alert you whenever it notices a feed on any page you visit, and will offer the option to subscribe to that page or ignore it in the future.

• Fireriver will create a new bookmark folder named "Fireriver Feeds"

• Fireriver will use Live Bookmarks in this folder to build a River of News page. You can view it by clicking the blue feed icon in the add-on bar.

• The space bar can be your main tool for paddling down the river.

  • If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, that's great.
  • The page down key works too, if you have it. But, it's tiny.
  • Shift-space lets you back-paddle if you need to.

• You can add and remove Live Bookmarks in this folder like any other bookmark folder. The changes will be reflected in the river of news display.

• If you organize your Live Bookmarks with folders, Fireriver will let you view items filtered by those folders.

• If you leave the Fireriver page open, it will update itself whenever Live Bookmarks refresh with new items. (This may not always work, yet.)

• If anything seems broken, try reloading the page. Someday, you shouldn't need to do this, ever.

• Fireriver will try not to show you things you've seen before.

• Everything Fireriver knows is tied to your Live Bookmarks. If you delete them, Fireriver's data goes away too.

Credits

Influenced by and thieving heavily from:

• Sage
• Ambient News
• NewsRiver