Feedbro for Firefox Changelog

What's new in Feedbro for Firefox 4.16.3

Mar 27, 2024
  • Bugfix: Twitter parser should now properly use the date range check for subsequent loads

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.16.2 (Mar 21, 2024)

  • Enhancement: minor adjustments to Twitter parser to get more results

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.16.0 (Mar 13, 2024)

  • Feature: experimental renewed Twitter parser (not perfect, only works for actively posting accounts, not real-time, can miss tweets, replies are not included)
  • Bugfix: rule testing didn't work if there were no feed subscriptions
  • Enhancement: added accesskey shortcuts to Feedbro popup menu. See https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_accesskey.asp to see how to use those.

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.15.10 (Jan 25, 2024)

  • Bugfix: Rumble plugin was broken due to Rumble layout changes - fixed
  • Bugfix: "Open Feed Reader" didn't work in the popup if the Feedbro Chrome Web Store page was open
  • Bugfix: article width setting for viewmode 3 was ignored - fixed
  • Enhancement: Find Feeds in Current Tab now finds BitChute feeds also on pages which have the channel ID in the URL

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.15.6 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • Bugfix: eBay changed their date stamp formatting which broke the parser - fixed

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.15.5 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Enhancement: another attempt to filter away "Promoted" tweets
  • Bugfix: embedded Rumble video links were broken - fixed
  • Enhancement: YouTube videos embedded in iframe elements are now automatically scaled with CSS in case there are no width or height attributes present
  • Enhancement: Feedbro doesn't break anymore (stop parsing) if the provided feed URL is malformed

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.15.3 (Feb 24, 2023)

  • Bugfix: eBay parser was only accepting urls containing string "/sch/i.html" - removed this restriction.

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.15.2 (Feb 15, 2023)

  • Bugfix: eBay parser should now work correctly on localized domains (.it, .fr, .de etc) and it won't internally redirect to ebay.com anymore
  • Bugfix: linkify was broken at last for Twitter
  • Bugfix: Fixed eBay parser (was broken due to structural change on eBay)
  • Bugfix: Fixed VK parser (was broken due to VK structural changes + relative date parsing improved)
  • Enhancement: Medium feeds are now found with "Find Feeds in Current Tab"
  • Enhancement: Twitter posts with just a URL as content now get "No Title" title in Feedbro to enable clicking

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.14.5 (Feb 7, 2023)

  • Enhancement: Twitter parser now sends API queries with parameters to exclude promoted content

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.14.3 (Jan 27, 2023)

  • Bugfix: enhanced input data sanitization
  • Bugfix: LinkedIn parsing fixed
  • Enhancement: added custom code that modifies YouTube videos embedded by Engadget feed so that they won't take the entire screen

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.14.2 (Jan 3, 2023)

  • Bugfix: html meta tags are now filtered from feed entry content

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.14.1 (Dec 12, 2022)

  • Enhancement: Telegram URL without /s/ is now also automatically parsed
  • Enhancement: new Facebook parser which can read more than the first article on pages and in groups

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.6.0 (Aug 26, 2020)

  • Feature: Telegram support - Feedbro can now parse Telegram URLs like https://t.me/s/netflix
  • Bugfix: Popup "Open Explorer" view didn't show starred articles - fixed

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.5.0 (Jul 20, 2020)

  • Enhancement: Twitter plugin doesn't need the pinned tab anymore. However /home and /explore views are no longer supported
  • Bugfix: rename feed/folder would hang if the name exceeded 50 chars
  • Bugfix: add folder would hang if the name exceeded 35 chars

New in Feedbro for Firefox 4.0.0 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • Feature: multilanguage support! You can now create JSON based language support files to translate Feedbro into any language and install them via Options
  • Feature: currently supported built-in language locales: English (en_US), Finnish (fi_FI) - contact [email protected] to contribute translations
  • Feature: Rule Action "Play sound URL" that lets you play any sound that is directly accessible on the Internet. Sounds available e.g. on https://freesound.org/
  • Enhancement: Facebook plugin now generates more descriptive article titles (rather than "No Title")
  • Enhancement: iframes in posts now have max-width: 100% to improve layout when article width is limited
  • Enhancement: switched title and message in desktop notifications - now there's more room for the actual article title text
  • Enhancement: removed onBeforeUnload save-hook from the reader view to reduce the possibility of subscription data loss upon closing the browser
  • Bugfix: fixed a potential problem when sharing the article to Facebook
  • Bugfix: VK plugin caused duplicates with differing seconds in the timestamp
  • Bugfix: request header handling fix (Twitter UI switching issue)