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Can an Extension Make A Browser Sticky?

by Luca Filigheddu on February 23, 2009

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Yes, it can. This is the reason why I’m finding myself using Firefox for Mac, way slower than Safari or my lovely Opera 10, than those much better alternatives. What extension I’m speaking about? Feedly.

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If you use FF and haven’t tried Feedly yet, you definitely should. I reviewed Feedly a couple of months ago and since then it got better and better, and now looks like I can’t stay without it.

In a nutshell, it’s a magazine-like page for Google reader which improves the way you read the articles coming from your feeds on the popular Google’s RSS reader. It completely changed the way I consume news and go through my RSS feeds, helping me to get the most out of them and to interact with the content I’m consuming.

As soon as you start using Feedly, it slowly becomes the center of your news consumption. It lets you quickly share them on Google Reader, Friendfeed, Twitter, Digg and Email, without the need of leaving the news you are reading. You can do that from within the main Feedly home page or while surfing the web. If you come across a news which is being discussed on Friendfeed, you can immediately join the discussion or share it somewhere else, thanks to the small toolbar which is shown below the page (called Feedly Mini).

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The best thing you can do now is installing it and test it by yourself.  The only downside is that you are forced to use FF. I would love, I repeat, I would love to see Feedly becoming a web-based service accessible by any browser so that I can finally delete Firefox from my Mac.

Dear Edwin, can you hear me? For all the others, please get the latest version of Feedly here (a new release today…).

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Edwin Khodabakchian

We are working on a iphone and apple tv versions. The experiences will be very different then on the desktop but that will be out first steps in the webkit environment.

Regarding "cloud", we have a hybrid architecture which includes a set of back end services and a rich user experience. The reason we use an extension is to allow use to connect to multiple domains in real-time in a scalable and secured fashion. The client logic is actually 100% open web (JS+CSS+HTML) and very easy to port.

Thanks again for the post and the questions. Have a great day!

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luca filigheddu

Thanks Edwin. I look forward for the Webkit version. Is there a plan about that already? One more thing: why not making feedly a "cloud" service so that it stops being not browser-dependent?

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Edwin Khodabakchian

We are working on a iphone and apple tv versions. The experiences will be very different then on the desktop but that will be out first steps in the webkit environment.

Regarding "cloud", we have a hybrid architecture which includes a set of back end services and a rich user experience. The reason we use an extension is to allow use to connect to multiple domains in real-time in a scalable and secured fashion. The client logic is actually 100% open web (JS+CSS+HTML) and very easy to port.

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luca filigheddu

Thanks Edwin. I look forward for the Webkit version. Is there a plan about that already? One more thing: why not making feedly a "cloud" service so that it stops being not browser-dependent?

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Edwin Khodabakchian

We hear you! To be fair, I think that part of the reason why firefox feels slower is because of extensions like feedly (try firefox 3.1 b3 without any extension and you will see that it feels as fast or even faster than safari). We are constantly working on performance and memory optimization to address this issue. We did a big leap last week with what we call "streets gen III" and are doing a lot more in the next 4 weeks. So yes we hear you and we will both make feedly leaner and make it available on webkit - this way you will have the choice. Thanks for this detailed review and please let us know if there is anything else we can do.

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