# RSS Viewer

> An easy way to render RSS feeds directly in your browser

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/rss-viewer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/rss-viewer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `rss-viewer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** blacklight
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 45
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Rating:** 3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.4
- **Last updated:** 2023-02-27
- **First published:** 2023-01-02
- **Size:** 153 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/rss-viewer/)
- **Website:** [https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/rss-viewer-browser-extension.git](https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/rss-viewer-browser-extension.git)

## Description

RSS Viewer is a Firefox add-on that allows you to easily access and read RSS feeds directly within your browser. It detects feed URLs on web pages and opens them in a user-friendly web view, making it a seamless experience for keeping up with your favorite content.

## Rankings

- #17,000 — Overall
- #74 — viewer

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/rss-viewer)