Firefox extension Sage
Posted by creining | Filed under Uncategorized
I recently installed the Firefox extension Sage, which is a lightweight RSS and ATOM feed aggregator. I’m all about efficiency, and Sage assists me in hitting all the news sites (multiple times) daily. I had never used a news aggregator before as the ones historically available were desktop based and I didn’t want to have yet another application to run and maintain. The integration with Firefox is slick and very easy to set up. After installing Sage (Tools->Extensions->Get More Extensions) and restarting Firefox I went to View->Sidebar->Sage which popped open the Sage sidebar. I then created a Bookmarks folder called “Feeds” and configured Sage to use that folder as its feed folder. Next I added all my favorite sites RSS urls (Slashdot, OpenBSD Journal, SecurityFocus News, TaoSecurity, Dilbert, Salon, BBC News, Economist, NPR) which then show up in the top pane of the Sage sidebar. Clicking through the feeds show the news items in the bottom pane and by clicking on the news items they show up in the browser pane. I like the tooltips on the news items. I disliked the “Render feeds in content area” option within Sage and turned it off. I also added the Sage toolbar icon by going to View->Toolbars->Customize. Overall, very cool extension to a very cool browser.
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