Having switched from Firefox to Chrome as my primary browser last week I have been more productive due to Google Chrome performance being outstanding. However one lingering problem occured in that when I tried to check my own blog feeds by hitting http://www.dragonblogger.com/feed for example there is a Google Chrome RSS issue where it instead will spit out raw XML data instead of properly displaying the RSS feed like FireFox, Internet Explorer or Opera. You don’t have this problem when going to a Feedburner feed and I saw it primarily with WordPress blog feeds.
This is what the output looks like if you go to one of my wordpress blog feed URL’s directly with Google Chrome:
This has lead me to do some querying and I came across one of the most important extensions for Google Chrome is the RSS Subscription Extension which allows Google Chrome to render and display your WordPress blog or other RSS feed inside the browser properly.
The RSS Extension for Chrome still doesn’t allow you to manually hit the dragonblogger.com/feed/ URL but instead when you are on any main page in a blog site now that has a feed, you will see an RSS icon at the top right of the URL bar. Select this icon and it will properly render and display any of the RSS feeds offered by that website right in the Google Chrome browser.
Results of RSS Feed with the Chrome RSS Feed Extension:
Bottom Line
If you need to read RSS Feeds in Google Chrome and check your feeds often, the RSS Feed Chrome extension is extremely useful and highly recommended. This Chrome Extension is the best one that I have found to fix RSS issues in the Chrome browser.
-Dragon Blogger
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July 29th, 2010 at 8:23 am
This is the extension I’ve been using for quite a while, now all I need to do is add feedly as the default reader on it
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July 29th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Nice tip, hope chrome makes it default in Chrome 6.0 . Its already high time
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July 29th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I had this problem when I first switched to Google Chrome as well, and now use this rss extension as well. It’s great and dead handy for subscribing to blogs
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July 30th, 2010 at 12:02 am
I find myself using Opera and Chrome more and more often. I wonder though why a feature like this isn’t in the default install of Chrome?
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July 30th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Quite Useful Plugin. Chrome is also now becoming a very useful browser for bloggers.
Justin can you share the plugin with our readers. WP Admin Page Customization Plugin.
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July 30th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Which plug-in do you refer to, send me link to the WP Admin Page Customization.
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August 1st, 2010 at 2:39 pm
I think he is referring to your customized wp-admin page.
Though if there is a special plugin then plz share with us.
I think the same can b done with some css edits for the wp-admin page
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August 1st, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Everything I did with my login page is using a single wordpress plugin: http://www.dragonblogger.com/easily-customize-wordpress-login-page/ All I did was create the image and the plugin lets you change the HTML color and add custom CSS. See my review on the plugin.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Hi Justin, I didn’t know about this extension. I need to download it because I thought something was wrong with my feed when I first saw that. I had no idea that it was Chrome causing the feed to look that way. I’m hooked on Chrome so this is a big help. Thanks!!
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August 13th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Glad you found this article helpful, yep it was one lingering thing that bugged me about Chrome over firefox. Now with this plug-in I just wish it would show feed URL in the URL bar, instead it shows a blank URL bar when you click on feed.
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August 24th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I really enjoyed using Chrome up till a couple of weeks ago, then its gone weird. I have completely Uninstalled it 3 times and reinstalled it., but it still takes ages to load one page which won’t even scroll a single page and from there I always have to invoke a Force Quit command. Although I wish it worked, Firefox seems to be my best option for now.
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August 26th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
like i always say it’s a good thing you are in the social network…this is great people were asking me about why they couldn’t get feed. thanks
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