Using Live Bookmarks and Reliby for Better Browsing

One of the more overlook features of Firefox is Live Bookmarks. Its a big time-saver for people who likes to keep posted of new updates on their frequently visited websites. Why not just visit the website then? Well, if you have 10 or more websites you often visit, that would mean having to open and browse 10 websites to look for updated content. With Live Bookmarks, website feeds is stacked neatly in a menu form, and clicking each menu item will list the most recent contents from the website.

To use Live Bookmarks, the website needs to have RSS or atom feeds. Firefox will automatically tell you if a webpage has a feed or not, through the yellow RSS feed icon on the address bar. To list them in live bookmark, you need to click on that RSS icon:



Clicking the icon on the example website above will take you to the feeds content summary page, where snippets of the most recent contents will be displayed. You need to subscribe to the feed using Live Bookmarks, and click on the Subscribe Now button.



A new item will be added to your Bookmarks Toolbar (View >Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar), in this case, a menu list of Slashdot ITs most recent contents:



The Live Bookmark item can be updated by right clicking on it and selecting Reload Live Bookmark. This maybe needed if the website feed that was subscribed to contains frequently changing content such as website forums. An easier way is to install Reliby extension for firefox by Henrik Gemal. Reliby reloads all your Live Bookmarks aka RSS feeds with a push of a button. Reliby can be found here.