Gregarius as Feedhandler in Firefox

I use the web-based feed reader Gregarius since some time to get my daily dosage of news out of nearly 150 feeds. I used a very old version (0.5.4) since today. Normaly I keep my software up-to-date all the time but in this case I remembered that i made some changes to the code and I never was up to check what I changed exactly, update Gregarius and re-add my changes to the new version when needed.

This was completely causeless. I just updated to current version 0.6.1. I replaced all files and edited the dbinit.php manually. On first launch of Gregarius page I accepted to patch the database with some new default configuration options. That’s it…

By browsing through the admin panel I found a “new” link named “Register as Feed Handler” on the Feeds page. Okay, that feature is not new – it is included since version 0.5.5. But this feature is really useful for browsing with Firefox. When you open a feed in Firefox you have a dropdown menu for adding this feed to your favorite reader. Now I can add new feeds by simply selecting it in the form. No copy ‘n paste of the feed URLs anymore.