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RSS Feeds Preview In Opera 9.6

I was checking out the ‘What’s New?’ section of Opera 9.6, when it was released yesterday, and I noticed that the devs have mostly focussed on fixing the bugs and stability issues from 9.5. The few new features include typed History and custom Search engine synchronisation in Opera Liink, and an autogenerated RSS Feed Preview for RSS Feed XML pages.

I checked it out and found it to be quite useful if you want to check out what kind of feeds a particular website offers. Particularly, the blogs/websites that offer partial feeds annoy me. I would never subscribe to an RSS feed if I should have to go back to a website to read the full content. According to me, this is like evil DRMed media, where you are offered a small preview, and are asked to shell out money if you want to read more. Also, some people are adding loads of intrusive ads in RSS feeds. This also defeats the purpose of a neat and clean interface where you can read your favorite online content without going through the hassle of manually visiting each webpage. For checking out RSS feeds WITHOUT subscribing to them, the feed preview feature which arranges the feeds neatly like a webpage is really useful and neat. Check out RutSum’s feed page in the Feed preview tool.

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