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Re: [LUG] RSS in Thunderbird 3

 

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've just upgraded Thunderbird to 3.0.3 and now have an annoying
> issue in the RSS feeds.  Previously I set it to automatically
> download the full article - I only use it atm for BBC News - so I
> can read the first few lines then skip it if I'm not interested.
> However following this 'upgrade' all I get now is a single line of
> text.  I have to click the link and open the browser to look at
> articles to see them in full.
> 
> This is a major pain in the proverbial because it means for *every*
> article I want to read I have to click the link, open the browser,
> read the article, close the browser ad nauseum.  Yes I could leave
> the browser open but why should I have to work around something that
> has been broken just by 'upgrading'?
> 
aptitude install newsbeuter

Each time you come to an article it will open in firefox. or elinks
(much faster)


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