WebFeed-Indicator

Name: WebFeed-Indicator
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Jakob Hördt

By: Jakob Hördt

Indicates RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds on Websites.

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Features & Capabilities

This extension displays an icon in your address bar if it detects RSS, Atom, or JSON Web Feeds on the active website. Click on it to open a Popup showing the feed URLs and a Button to copy the corresponding URL to your clipboard with one click.

Complete Installation: After adding the extension to Firefox, grant it permission by navigating to about:addons in Firefox, then > WebFeed-Indicator > Permissions, and enable "Access your data for all websites". See below why this permission is required.

After that, try out the extension by navigating to https://blog.mozilla.org. The icon should appear in your address bar. Click on it to reveal the available feeds. Click on one of the copy buttons to the left to copy a feed URL to your clipboard. You can paste the URL into your favorite feed aggregator software to subscribe to it.

Compared to other feed extensions, this one puts an emphasis on a limited feature set and quality.

Features:

Good theme integration
Open Source
Works completely on your local computer
Simple, limited feature creep

Permissions: To extract the feed URLs websites advertise from their HTML head tag, this extension unfortunately requires being able to read the content of the websites you visit. Feel free to verify in the source code that this power is only used for a simple local HTML query.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Jakob Hördt

Daily users:

Rating:

4.00

(2)

Version:

1.3 Last updated: 2023-04-02

Version code:

5547711

Creation date:

2023-04-01

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Size:

11.27KB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-23

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# 57,339 ▼ 79

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Developed by:

Jakob Hördt

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/webfeed-indicator/

Website:

https://gitlab.com/neop_/webfeed-indicator/-/issues

User Reviews

§ Pros • FOSS • Allows to copy the link to an individual feed. • Detects most feeds on pages. § Cons • Doesn't display the presence and number of feeds on the current page behind the icon. • Does not detect feed links on google.com/alerts. • Doesn't support dark theme. • Does not display the Title of feeds but only links to them. • Does not display the type (format) of each feed found. • Doesn't display the presence and number of feeds on the current page behind the icon. Mozilla Firefox 148.0b12

by Ko*****, 2026-02-08

This extension does exactly what it says in the description: it finds feed URLs within the <head> of websites and if it finds any, an icon appears in the browser bar. I use it to copy feed URLs that I then add to my feed reader.

by Be*****, 2025-10-20

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Is WebFeed-Indicator Safe?

Risk impact

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WebFeed-Indicator requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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WebFeed-Indicator has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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