Bloglines has hijacked my computer!

Comic Book Guy
MUST…FIX…BROWSER…

Attempting to preview an RSS feed in my browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5), I type the feed url, like http://www.jefflazerus.com/blog/feed, and the Bloglines “subscribe” page tries to take over. I understand how the convenience of this would be an advantage sometimes, but unless I explicitly tell Bloglines to get a feed, why would it? I don’t really want to add blogs to my Bloglines feed list manually (copying and pasting the feed URL into a form in my Bloglines preferences page), but I do want to hit the “Sub with Bloglines” button if Firefox, rather than the thing hijacking my browser.

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3 Comments

  1. Posted December 11, 2009 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    I also use Google reader but that is far from the user friendly options life others!

    • Posted December 14, 2009 at 7:09 pm | Permalink

      I switched from bloglines to google reader recently and I really think it’s more stable for aggregating RSS feeds, with one exception, that being feeds from freelancer websites.

  2. Posted April 24, 2009 at 9:09 am | Permalink

    I use Google reader. Bloglines similar to Google reader. I have used Google reader to a complete RSS tool.

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