I dunno guys I think it'd actually be better to make an RSS-first browser than an AI browser

RSS was good tech and it worked well, that's why google tried their hardest to kill it

it was never gonna take off with the general public because of the godawful name but for computers nerds like us it was perfect

and hell it's been long enough since google reader that you could legit hype it up as a new technology that's gonna improve everything about the way you use the net. The tech blogs would laugh about it but nobody reads those anyway except computers nerds

Firefox pls think of a better name for RSS and then make it front and centre of your browser, kthx

@ifixcoinops What would the "browser" part of it do that couldn't be done in a regular web app?

@mauve @ifixcoinops oooh I can think of a few: search bar that prioritizes sites you subscribe to via RSS, new tab page that shows the most recent article in the RSS feed from your top ten feeds, pre-load sites in your feed so it's snappier to visit them.

@j2kun @mauve @ifixcoinops when visiting a page in your feed, UI elements that let you go to the next/previous item in the feed would be amazing.

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@calcifer @j2kun @ifixcoinops Oh! I remember Opera had that at one point. I've been meaning to add it but I'm not sure what the most reliable method to get the "next page" is. I've also added a "go up" so you can navigate to parent directories.

@mauve @j2kun @ifixcoinops for pages in a feed, “next” is the next one listed in the feed, so it’s a lot easier than solving the general case of “what counts as a next page?” (since almost no one is providing that meta data per the spec)

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