As I'm sure you know I'm a Firefox user (if you don't know about Firefox yet PLEASE check it out - basically it's the best web browser that has ever been written). One of the down sides to using Firefox is that most apps are written to work with IE since it is still the major browser on the market.
As I'm getting more into the blog space I finally installed Newsgator for Outlook. One of the cool thing that Newsgator does is install a plugin into IE to allow you to right click on RSS feeds (like the Feedburner link to the right) and subscribe to them directly from IE. Since they don't officially support Firefox they didn't write one for Firefox.
Here comes the open source community to the resuce. Someone out there (sorry I'm not sure where it really came from, if you do PLEASE tell me so I can give proper credit) wrote a Firefox extension that works just great. The only catch is you may have to download it first (to your desktop) then double click on it to get it to work (that's what I did). So if you want to give it a go:
Once you install it you'll have to restart Firefox for it to become active. Then in Firefox just right click on a RSS feed link and choose "Subscribe in Newsgator" and you should be all set. Enjoy!
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