NewsFox

[NewsFox-pm]

NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane (email) style Atom/RSS feed reader.
It allows you to group your feeds as you wish, read feed content offline, update feeds when you want, 1-click subscribe with the Pale Moon URL bar icon, and read other feeds while updating.

This is a continuation of the NewsFox add-on for the old FireFox browser started and maintained over the years by Andrey Gromyko (developer), Ron Pruitt (developer) & Andy Frank (project creator) after obtaining permission from Andrey Gromyko and Ron Pruitt, unfortunately all attempts to contact Andy Frank ware unsuccessful.

Please do not try to contact the original team about bugs and problems, use the Issues tab and keep in mind that I'm an amateur trying to keep this add-on alive and useful in my free time and with very limited skills. Pull requests are welcomed if you are willing to contribute to the project.

P.S. The add-on is currently submitted and awaiting approval. While I work on the wiki documentation - bane of every developer existence .
You can see the code here: https://github.com/g41v/NewsFox-pm

Screenshots:

[moonbat]

While I work on the wiki documentation - bane of every developer existence .

It's not a bane. Done right, you can simply point your users to read it before asking questions. And when it comes to code - good inline docs can save your bacon as you yourself wouldn't recall what you did or why just a few weeks or months later. I have a very minimal set of webpages with screenshots for my extensions; that describes how to use them and what preferences they have.

In your case I guess the original mozdev docs should be more than enough for people to learn about it or how to use it.

[NewsFox-pm]

In your case I guess the original mozdev docs should be more than enough for people to learn about it or how to use it.

The problem is that the mozdev site is no longer there and the docs are spread in 10 change-log files among tons of other information.
I'd like to have the relevant bits in the github wiki but we'll see if I can make it and also add the ones for the new features...

P.S. Thanks for the help.

[sidology]

I remember trying it about 10 years ago and I have it in my bookmarks with a comment "heavy and full of bugs".

So is it still full of bugs?

[back2themoon]

The problem is that the mozdev site is no longer there...

We have an excellent backup by RealityRipple below, although I'm not sure it's what you are looking for:

https://udn.realityripple.com/

[NewsFox-pm]

I remember trying it about 10 years ago and I have it in my bookmarks with a comment "heavy and full of bugs".

So is it still full of bugs?

There is only one way to find out, I've squashed most of the ones I found - still at least one I can't fix yet ...

The problem is that the mozdev site is no longer there...

We have an excellent backup by RealityRipple below, although I'm not sure it's what you are looking for:

https://udn.realityripple.com/

I've been using it since moonbat send me a link to it

[moonbat]

The problem is that the mozdev site is no longer there and the docs are spread in 10 change-log files among tons of other information.

Have you checked archive.org for an older backup of it? Even that should be enough.

We have an excellent backup by RealityRipple

That's for general Javascript and extension development documentation, mozdev is different and it used to have subdomains for popular or complex extensions like this one.

[NewsFox-pm]

The problem is that the mozdev site is no longer there and the docs are spread in 10 change-log files among tons of other information.

Have you checked archive.org for an older backup of it? Even that should be enough.

Yep, going over https://web.archive.org/web/20181213183 ... /2008.html right now, 8 more files to check (2007-2016) for relevant information...

[NewsFox-pm]

The add-on has been approved
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/newsfox/

EDIT:
First WiKi page about the Filtered Web Pages is online: https://github.com/g41v/NewsFox-pm/wiki ... -Web-Pages

The NewsFox v1.1.0.0.0 production version is released with the following changes:
The text of feeds that are only in the FEEDS group will appear in red color by default.
Improve NewsFox context menus so they render correctly in both light and dark desktop themes.
Added fix for "newsfox.z.setHeader not working as expected" from the unpublished NewsFox v1.0.9.4.1a by Ron Pruitt, for more information you can reed the original bug ticket: https://web.archive.org/web/20181212054 ... i?id=26246

[NewsFox-pm]

NewsFox v1.1.0.0.1
Updated for Pale Moon v34.0.0

Please report any errors you find here or as GitHub issue.

[NewsFox-pm]

NewsFox v1.1.0.0.2

Update code to properly handle "301 Moved Permanently" and "308 Permanent Redirect" status codes updates to feed URL permanently.
(Thanks to Mark Kennedy from OpenRSS who reported the problem)

Added limits to "429 Too Many Requests" status code:
Changed the default delay to 90 minutes if the Retry-After header is missing or invalid
Updated 429 status code retry logic so that when repeats exceed the value of MAX_429_RETRIES, the code stops scheduling further retries and instead treats the situation as a final error.

Please report any errors you find here or as GitHub issue.