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Google and Yahoo option missing from RSS feeds

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johnmarzan
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When i click on the RSS icon in firefox to subscribe to a feed, Yahoo and Google are both missing.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4135/rssbx.jpg

How can i restore both of these and other readers.

When i click on the RSS icon in firefox to subscribe to a feed, Yahoo and Google are both missing. http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4135/rssbx.jpg How can i restore both of these and other readers.

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johnmarzan
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bump. any clue? here's a snapshot of my Options>Applications in firefox 3.6

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/8103/optionsj.jpg

notice that google, yahoo and others are not available. How can i restore them back?

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check the browser.contentHandlers.types prefs on the about:config page.

Google: http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=%s
My Yahoo: http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=%s

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/about%3Aconfig

johnmarzan
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thanks, but how do you add yahoo and google to the "podcast" and "video podcast" feed in the Tools>Options>Applications?


I only have browser.videoFeeds.handler and browser.audioFeeds.handler properties in my about:config.

these are missing

browser.audioFeeds.handlers.application

browser.audioFeeds.handlers.webservice

browser.videoFeeds.handler.default

browser.videoFeeds.handlers.application

browser.videoFeeds.handlers.webservice

Modified by johnmarzan