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Re: [LUG] RSS in Thunderbird 3

 

On 30/03/2010 15:00, Henry Bremridge wrote:
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)


Thanks, but I found it in T'bird. It dawned on me to check the Config Editor. Despite my selections otherwise, rss.show.content-base was set off and rss.show.summary was set on. I've reversed these two and now got ti doing what I want :)

Kind regards,

Julian

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