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Liferea

Liferea browsing Linux related news

Original author(s) Lars Lindner

Stable release

1.8.0 (December 10, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-10) ^[1])

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Preview release

1.8-RC1 (September 14, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-09-14) ^[2])

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Operating system Linux, BSD, Solaris

Type news aggregator

License GPL

Website liferea.sourceforge.net

Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, 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.

Liferea also supports Podcasting.

1 Pronunciation 2 Distinguishing features 3 Browser integration 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Pronunciation

The lead programmer of Liferea, Lars Lindner, who is German, pronounces the name of the software [lifÉ™reja].[1]

[edit] Distinguishing features

It is written in C and uses no interpreter language.

To easily read linked articles or weblog comments, Liferea allows reading websites using an embedded browser, which can be either Mozilla/Firefox/XulRunner, GtkHTML or, in newer versions, Webkit. Additionally, the user can configure many predefined external browsers (e.g. Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Epiphany, Konqueror) with which to open links.

By sorting subscriptions into folders, the user can read all headlines of a folder at once. By enabling a filtering preference, all previously read headlines of the folder can be hidden.

Similar to the mail client Evolution, Liferea supports search folders, which allow the user to save searches. Each search folder contains all headlines that match its user-defined search rules.

[edit] Browser integration

In Epiphany there is a news feed subscription extension, which allows adding news feeds when viewing websites.

For Firefox 1.5+ there is an extension (FeedBag) that allows adding subscriptions by simple clicking the LiveBookmarks icons in the Firefox address bar.

Since Firefox 2.0+, Liferea can be used without a special extension. To subscribe to new feeds from within Firefox, the Liferea helper script "liferea-add-feed" has to be configured in the Firefox feed subscription preferences.