RSS Sage-Like

Name: RSS Sage-Like
Rating: 4.64 (25 reviews)
Author: arielg

A fast and lightweight sidebar-based feed reader. Supports Atom, RSS, JSON, and RDF feeds with customizable UI and seamless integration with your browser’s bookmarks and sync capabilities.

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RSS Sage-Like is a fast, lightweight sidebar-based feed reader supporting Atom, RSS, JSON, and RDF feeds. Inspired by classic extensions like Sage and Sage++, it offers a seamless reading experience integrated with your browser's native bookmarks and sync features. Key features include customizable feed tree views with drag-and-drop, feed discovery from the sidebar and address bar, and the ability to detect hidden RSS feeds on popular platforms like YouTube and Reddit.

With support for Firefox Sync, feeds stay synchronized across devices. Users can filter feeds by title, URL, or status, utilize context menus for easy feed and article management, and enjoy rendered feed previews with customizable styles. The extension also supports OPML import/export for managing subscriptions, multiple click actions on feed items, and a fully customizable UI with font and color options. Designed for performance and simplicity, RSS Sage-Like enhances your feed reading directly within the browser sidebar, maintaining a lightweight footprint and high responsiveness.

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By:

arielg

Daily users:

591 -3

Rating:

4.64

(25)

Version:

3.10 Last updated: 2025-05-26

Version code:

5956582

Creation date:

2019-02-12

Risk:

Permissions:

bookmarks
history
tabs
menus
clipboardRead
clipboardWrite
storage
downloads
scripting
alarms

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

237.90KB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 4,165 ▲ 2

Other rankings

#146 in Bookmarks ▲ 1

#237 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▲ 3

#5 in like keyword 21

#12 in usage keyword 17 ▲ 1

#77 in json keyword 70 ▼ 1

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User reviews

RSS Sage-Like is praised as a modern continuation of the classic Sage RSS reader, offering an intuitive, low-bandwidth experience with syncing across Firefox devices. Users appreciate developer responsiveness but note missing features like advanced customization of tooltips and feed check timings. Common issues include cluttering bookmarks with feeds, difficulties in keyboard shortcuts for marking articles read, and lack of built-in article saving or subscribe toolbar. Despite some usability and feature limitations, it is valued highly for preserving Sage functionality in Firefox's newer ecosystem.

Pros

Faithful continuation of the original Sage RSS reader functionality making it easy for long-time Sage users to transition to modern Firefox versions.
Simple, intuitive, and low bandwidth design.
Supports syncing feeds across Firefox on multiple devices without requiring an external account.
Good developer responsiveness regarding privacy and user concerns.
Good integration with Firefox's sidebar and efficient at handling large numbers of feeds.

Cons

Lack of some advanced customization options such as tooltip display time and color customization.
No 24-hour time format option for periodic background feed checks.
Feeds are imported into bookmarks cluttering the search and bookmark areas.
Some usability issues with feed management like difficulty moving feeds into empty folders and marking articles as read using keyboard shortcuts.
No built-in support for saving articles or a toolbar button for subscribing to feeds, making some interactions less convenient.

Recent reviews

by Ma*****, 2025-06-07

by bu*****, 2025-06-06

Tooltips are not displayed when hovering over or clicking on the circle with the question mark. Accordingly, some of the settings are unclear. No language selection (if the extension supports languages other than English). No 24-hour time format for the "Periodic background feed check" field. Feeds (in my case, there are more than a thousand of them) are imported into bookmarks, and clutter up the search results there. Mozilla Firefox 140.0b1 (64-bit), RSS Sage-Like 3.10 (26 May 2025), Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045.5854.

by Ko*****, 2025-05-28

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RSS Sage-Like requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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RSS Sage-Like is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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