What is Linefeed?

Linefeed is a Chrome extension developed by codifier, and its main feature is "A personal start page for displaying RSS and Atom feed headlines".

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Extension Usage Instructions

Linefeed is a personal start page that let's you display the headlines of your favorite RSS and Atom feeds in an organized fashion.

Features:
• Easily organize your feeds in tabs and columns, by dragging and dropping them.
• Subscribe to new feeds by dragging and dropping feed links or by entering feed links manually.
• Discover feeds in web pages you are visiting and be notified of them through Linefeed's browser toolbar icon.
• Automatically display feeds if you happen to directly visit a feed's XML-page, so you can subscribe to them.
• Backup and restore Linefeed data or exchange data with other feed readers, by importing or exporting OPML files.
• The tabs can be displayed horizontally or vertically, in the corner of your choice.
• Customize a feed's title and its link if they are not to your liking.
• Choose the number of columns per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose the number of headlines to show per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose between wrapping or not wrapping feed headlines per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose to show icons per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose a foreground color that suits you best.
• Choose a font size that suits you best.

Currently available translations:
• English (US)
• Dutch (NL)
• Italian (IT) provided by Michele Pezza (https://github.com/MichelePezza)

Current limitations:
• There's no scrolling mechanism for tab bar overflow yet. If you create more tabs than your screen size can show, you can't currently scroll through them.
• There's no option to choose a background color yet.

Changes since 0.0.9.2:
New:
• Show dimmed italic "untitled" placeholder to indicate feed has no title.
• Added setting to show default icon for missing feed icons.
• Minor copy changes.
Fixed:
• RSS feeds with version 0.9 were not recognized and could therefore not be read.
• Bottom padding for scrollable settings dialog was not showing in Firefox.
• Special characters, such as the ampersand, in tab names where unnecessarily encoded as html entities and prevented those pages from being selected.
• Reverted previous mentioned incorrect special characters fix and fixed it properly.
• Force text/xml Content-Type when loading feeds, because some servers incorrectly set text/html Content-Type for feeds.
• Improved feed detection with aforementioned misconfigured servers.
Translations:
• [UPDATED] Italian translation provided by Michele Pezza (https://github.com/MichelePezza).

Permissions justification:
• tabs
Needed to open Linefeed in a browser tab and to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds.
• storage
Needed to save your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings.
• unlimitedStorage
Needed to save an unlimited amount of your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings.
• downloads
Needed to show a "Save as..." dialog when exporting Linefeed data to an OPML file.
• webRequest
Needed to discover feeds on visited pages.
• webRequestBlocking
Needed to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds.
• Hosts /
Needed to discover feeds on visited pages.

Extension Basic Information

Name	Linefeed
ID	icapihihmjfdhepemmpcmcndhackkpeg
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linefeed/icapihihmjfdhepemmpcmcndhackkpeg
Description	A personal start page for displaying RSS and Atom feed headlines
File Size	97.01 KB
Installation Count	29
Current Version	0.0.10.9
Last Updated	2020-12-22
Publish Date	2020-09-13
Developer	codifier
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	http://extensions.codifier.nl/linefeed/
Supported Languages	en,nl,it
manifest.json
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