If you check specific web sites for new content on a regular basis, you can use Live Bookmarks in Firefox to deliver the most recent updates to you, without having to visit the web site.

Note: Live Bookmarks will only work with web sites that offer web feeds.

When a web feed is available from a web site, you can use Firefox to subscribe to it, as a Live Bookmark. Firefox checks your Live Bookmarks every hour for updates, which enables you to stay current with the latest information from your favorite sites.

• Live Bookmarks work with any web feed in RSS, RDF, or Atom format.

Table Of Contents

• Automatic discovery of feeds
• Manually adding a Live Bookmark
• Using Live Bookmarks
• Reloading Live Bookmarks

Automatic discovery of feeds

When Firefox discovers a feed associated with the web page you are visiting, an orangeblue icon automatically appears in the location bar. To review and subscribe to the web site's feed, click the orangeblue web feed icon. A list of all available feeds from the web site is displayed.

To subscribe to any listed feed, click its name in the list.

When you select the feed, you can preview some of its recent content to verify that it contains useful information for you.

• To add the feed as a Live Bookmark, select Live Bookmarks from Subscribe to this feed using list. Then, click Subscribe Now.
• Firefox enables the use of other web feed readers such as Bloglines, My Yahoo!, and Google. To subscribe to the web feed using one of these readers, select it from Subscribe to this feed using list.

If you subscribed using Firefox's Live Bookmarks, the Add Live Bookmark dialog appears.

• Name: Enter a name of your choosing, to refer to the feed as it will appear in your bookmarks.
• Create in: Select where you want to save this bookmark.

Click Add. You are now subscribed to the feed through a Live Bookmark. Live Bookmarks are placed in the same structure as other bookmarks.

Manually adding a Live Bookmark

Some web sites require that you subscribe to their feeds manually. If you know the web address of a feed to which you wish to subscribe, you can add it as a Live Bookmark.

Using Live Bookmarks

Live Bookmarks are identifiable by the web feed icon next to the bookmark's name.

1. To use a Live Bookmark, select it to view the latest items from the feed.
2. To view a page from the feed, select the item in the bookmark.
   • To view all listed items in the feed, select Open All in Tabs. Each listed item is opened in a separate tab in the current window.