Google Chrome: Out of Beta, Still No RSS (RSS4Lib)

Google Chrome: Out of Beta, Still No RSS

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Google released its Chrome web browser back in September as a beta. Unlike so many other Google tools that are in perpetual beta, Chrome today is now a full-fledged product (see Google's press release to this effect).

As I noted back in September, Chrome had no support for RSS feeds. And it still doesn't -- here's RSS4Lib's RSS 2.0 feed as displayed by Chrome:

RSS Feed as displayed in Google Chrome

Given that Google has a perfectly serviceable RSS reader, and seeing the importance Google has clearly placed on Chrome -- moving it from public beta to supported software in an unheard of three months -- it seems even odder now than in the beta stage that Google has chosen not to make use of it.

Posted by Ken Varnum on December 11, 2008 2:25 PM
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Daniel Johnson, Jr.:

I've been using Chrome a lot since its release, and I have noticed this myself. I also hope they integrate the Reader into the browser because that textual mashup stuff is illegible.

Posted by Daniel Johnson, Jr. | February 5, 2009 11:02 AM

Posted on February 5, 2009 11:02

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