Liferea
Linux Feed Reader
(commonly known as Liferea) is 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 in OPML format.
Liferea is intended to be a fast, easy to use, and easy to
install news aggregator for GTK+ that can be used with the GNOME
desktop.
The Liferea package includes the XSPF Web Music Player.
Liferea allows direct subscriptions from Firefox
1.5+ and
Epiphany. Epiphany provides a standard plugin that allows adding
subscription directly to Liferea.
Liferea 1.8.12
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Price
Free to download
Size
1.3MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Lars Lindner, Nathan J. Conrad and numerous code
contributors
Website
liferea.sourceforge.net
System Requirements
gtk2, gconf2, libxml2,
libxslt, sqlite3 and either libgtkembedmoz, libxul or gtkhtml2
Mozilla,
Firefox or XulRunner installation containing libgtkembedmoz.so - to use
the Mozilla browser module
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
FAQ,
Liferea
Blog, Liferea
Mailing List
Selected
Reviews:
Softpedia,
RedHat
Magazine
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Features include:
- Full Support for RSS & RFD, CDF, Atom/Echo/PIE 0.2
- OPML and OCS support
- Traditional three-pane interface
- Collapsible groups for feeds
- Filters to scrape websites or postprocess feeds
- Enclosures (Podcasting)
- Bandwidth saving by supporting feed specified update
intervals, HTTP compression and etags
- Read article when offline
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Last Updated Monday, April 08 2013 @ 04:03 PM EDT
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