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Feedly Tweak – Open feed item in background tab for Firefox

It’s so sad to see Google Reader die, but I found a pretty good alternative, it’s Feedly. The interface looks nice, it can import subscriptions from Google Reader easily, and the most important thing for me is that, it supports keyboard shortcuts.

But there is one thing I don’t really like: when I press ‘v’ to open the feed link, it will focus to the newly opened tab. For Google Reader, I used Google Reader Tweak – Open Links in Background to solve this problem. So when I press ‘v’, the browser will open a background tab to display the link.

I know there is a Chrome version plugin that can solve this, but I love Firefox, it’s my daily browser. The Google Reader Tweak inspired me, I hacked the code to support Feedly. Here is the Feedly version: Feedly Tweak.

Currently, I use Feedly 14.0.485, it has a bug. When you open the links, it will contains a string “?utm_source=feedly” at the end of each feed item. I fixed it in the GM script.

Installation:
1. Install GreaseMonkey Add-on.
2. Install the GM script by clicking here.

Hope you like it!

Update:
03/18/2015 Fix the background opening for new GreaseMonkey

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我觉得RSS是个伟大的发明,在没有他的时候,世界还处于Web1.0的时代,我们只能通过门户网站来获取信息。但在这个信息爆炸的年代,信息是越来越多,门户网站上有很多自己不想看的东西,使用RSS后,你可以只看你喜欢的东西,这样就不会在新浪首页乱翻而浪费时间了。

RSS需要阅读器来看,Google Reader就是其中之一,他应该算是Google的金牌服务了,用他来阅读RSS会很方便。不过我个人觉得他的界面设计会让初次访问者感到很为难,Google的东西向来是很简洁的,但我觉得GR其实可以更简洁点,甚至对于初级用户来说,可以设计个向导来帮助用户快速上手。


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