I'm writing a second edition of a technical book about a content management system. I am writing a section about how to configure RSS feeds. Then I realized something: It is getting harder to detect RSS in a web browser these days! I wrote about several methods to do this in 2010, and now all the methods I suggested seem to be obsolete.
Firefox seems to have removed their RSS icon. Inded, if this functionality exists in the browser, it seems to be only through a plugin.
As of July 2013 what are the easiest ways to detect an RSS feed if there's no visible sign (an RSS icon, etc).
Are there any websites where you can plug in a URL to see if an RSS feed exists?
Aha, I see that in Firefox, you can do View –> Toolbars –> Customize and then choose the icon for Subscribe/Feeds and drag it to your Firefox toolbar. That's one solution… Any others.
Update #2. Aha, in IE 10, you can go to Tools –> Feed Discovery –>(see if a feed exists). If it does, IE will display it and give you some queries and other options for subscribing and filtering…. (On my laptop, the Tools toolbar was hidden. I had to rightclick on the top toolbar, enable Menu Bar to make it visible again so I could find the Tools menu.
Thanks.
Best Answer
In Firefox (at least my Firefox 21), you can go into Page Info and Feeds. I'm pretty sure this is independent of any add-ons; I got so fed up with having to do that all the time that I hunted down and installed the RSS Icon In Awesomebar add-on. It's a little less un-awesome now. There appears to be a few alternative implementations available.