The integrated RSS reader in Chrome for Android displays an RSS feed on the browser’s new tab page, so we may see a similar feed appear in the new tab page of Chrome for desktop at some point in the future. Nonetheless, Andria Porter Felt, a Director of Engineering at Google for Chrome, confirmed in a tweet that this new context menu option is the beginning of a full-fledged RSS reader built into Chrome for desktop. The new option is titled “Follow site.” This new listing in the context menu appears to the be the only functioning part of the integrated RSS feature, as the associated feed isn’t currently able to display any content. Felt did reveal that further progress would be made on the smartphone OS RSS feed readers before we’d see or hear of the development of a desktop version.After updating his Chromebook to ChromeOS 106, Kevin Tofel of About Chromebooks discovered a new option in the Chrome context menu.
While she revealed no such plans in progress, Ms. The code even comes with a UI, but it’s unfinished and allows for no interaction.Īdrienne Porter Felt, a Chrome engineer, was reached out to for comment with this evidence.
The early-stage data strings reveal a work-in-progress UI that’s supposedly related to feeding readers for desktop clients. Furthermore, we have AboutChromebooks helping us out, as the online Chromebook-oriented journal uncovered a bit of code.
For starters, there’s the fact that Google’s added RSS feeds to Android and iOS, thus clearly affirming its inclination towards taking them more seriously. Honestly, all of this might just be conjecture Google has made no statements of the sort, and we’re making this assumption of RSS feeds returning to desktops based on other evidence. Or, should I perhaps consider typing “did lead to”, as Google pulled the plug on Reader almost a decade past? However, people continue to consume online media at accelerating rates, and therefore the companies decided to give this entire RSS feed gimmick a second chance. The reader was also very accommodating of other RSS feeds pasting any online website’s RSS feed link into the Reader would then lead to those articles being recommended in the future. With Google Reader, for example, users could enter specific keywords that related to their topics of interest, and would in return be provided with relevant and recent content on the subject matter.
For those individuals unaware, an RSS reader is essentially just suggestions feed for online articles and the like. The reader was an RSS reader which could curate articles for users with exceeding efficiency. The Google Graveyard’s chock-full of actually useful features, but were consigned to oblivion for either not garnering a strong enough audience, or the tech giant allocating resources elsewhere. After the discontinuation of Google Reader, and bringing in a new RSS feed reader for iOS and Android, Google’s planning on developing one for desktops as well.
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