Mozilla Thunderbird: RSS reader simplified

Mozilla Thunderbird is the award winning mail client for sending and receiving emails via POP. In addition to this Mozilla thunderbird can also be used as a RSS reader. To configure thunderbird as your RSS feed reader, follow the steps.

Open thunderbird
File >> New >> Account >> Select “RSS News & Blogs” >> Click “Next” >> Next >> Click “Finish”
After that a New Folder named “News & Blogs” will be created on the left panel.
Right click “News & Blogs” and select “Manage Subscriptions”
Click on the “Add” button” and under “Feed URL” enter a feed URL.
Select the check mark where it says “Show the article summary instead of loading the web page”.
Click on “Ok”
In this way you may add as many feeds as you want.
After adding all your feeds, right click on “News & Blogs” and select “Get Messages for account”

Thunderbird will deliver the RSS feed updates excellently without any problem.

Why use Thunderbird as a RSS reader?

There are plenty of desktop RSS readers available (both shareware and freeware). Some of the disadvantages of these RSS readers are listed below.

You need to have Dot Net framework (.net) installed, which is not necessary for a simple RSS reader.
Some of the free RSS readers lack in features. Or they might have bugs.
The ones which work pretty well may ask for registration for continued usage.
Some RSS readers consume a lot of memory of your PC.

But Mozilla Thunderbird works smoothly without any limitation for the user. Since the RSS reader is integrated with Email client, it makes things easy. If you are still trying out various RSS readers then its time you give thunderbird a chance for managing your RSS subscriptions.

October 17th, 2005 in technology