# Feed Preview

> Indicates available RSS and Atom feeds and renders previews.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/feed-preview](https://chrome-stats.com/d/feed-preview)

## Overview

- **ID:** `feed-preview`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Guido Berhörster
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 1,580
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (76 ratings)
- **Version:** 14
- **Last updated:** 2024-03-03
- **First published:** 2018-10-27
- **Size:** 52 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/feed-preview/)

## Description

**Feed Preview** is a Firefox extension that detects RSS and Atom feeds directly in the browser's URL bar and renders live previews of these feeds.

Key features include extensive support for various feed formats such as RSS 1 (0.9, 1.0), RSS 2 (0.91 to 2.0), and Atom (0.3, 2.0), including obscure specifications. It handles different character sets and uses content sniffing techniques to detect feeds served with XML or RDF content types. The extension supports enclosed media files downloadable from the preview page and enables subscription through user-configurable web-based feed readers, with presets for popular services and add-on integrations. For security, HTML content is sandboxed and sanitized, ensuring safe browsing. It preserves the original feed URL with no redirects, allowing

## Rankings

- #2,516 — Overall
- #143 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #1 — preview
- #14 — review
- #140 — submit
- #164 — iframe

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- ``

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

The add-on is praised for restoring RSS/Atom support, enabling easy previewing/subscription, reliability, simplicity, and direct XML viewing. Recurrent drawbacks include UI/icon visibility problems, missing dark mode, limited customization, occasional compatibility issues on specific Firefox versions, and missing layout/sorting options. Overall, it delivers essential RSS functionality with some polish and feature gaps noted by users.

### Pros

- Restores/Adds back RSS and Atom support in Firefox
- Allows previewing and subscribing to RSS feeds
- Generally reliable and simple to use with minimal settings
- Works well with external RSS services (e.g., FreshRSS)
- Displays RSS/Atom XML directly in the browser (no URL changes)

### Cons

- UI/icon visibility issues: extension button or icon not consistently shown in Firefox
- Missing dark mode/dark theme support and related visibility improvements
- Limited customization options (very few settings and cannot remove the top subscribe button)
- Inconsistent compatibility on some Firefox versions (not working on certain builds)
- Lacks layout and sorting options mentioned by some users

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