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NewsFox reference

This page is part of a classified guide to news feed readers, including standard Web browsers that support RSS. Each profile contains summary details of the feed reader, features, Web links and news feeds.

NewsFox profile

A news feed reader extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, which uses elements of the Mozilla Sage feed reader.

Open source software. Free at time of writing.

NewsFox feature summary
Home page: http://newsfox.mozdev.org/
Vendor: Mozilla Corporation
OPML import: No, cannot load feed lists from other programs.
OPML export: No, cannot save feed lists for other programs.
Auto-discovery: No, cannot find feeds on Web pages.
Web feed search: No, cannot search for feeds on the Web.
Local feed search: No, cannot search feeds on your computer.
News filters: No, cannot collect news items on chosen topics.
Watch lists: No, cannot highlight items that match key words.
Synchronization: No, cannot manage subscriptions from multiple computers.
Podcasts: No, cannot play audio and video feeds.

NewsFox identifiers

The Web Feed Generator provides customers with server logs to check demand for their news feeds. Each feed reader has its own code name or identifier that is reported in the server logs and shows which program was used to check a feed. To help make sense of these feed metrics, NewsFox is identified by the following code names.

Mozilla/5.0 NewsFox/0.3.4
  

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