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Chrome just shows text on properly formed RSS pages. Browse over to
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/food-recipes/feed
for example. Firefox and Explorer show the same page in a human friendly format.
Why doesn't Chrome render RSS feeds?
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RSS feeds are planned for chromium/chrome. There is a bug in the chromium bug tracker for this. It looks like this isn't anything that they are in a real hurry on (the bug has been open for over a year). Of course, the alternative is to write it yourself and submit a patch. If it can get past codereview, you can get most anything in to the main repository.
EDIT: Looks like that bug has now been closed and the official answer is to use this extension.
user2539
Posted 2009-07-23T22:41:39.687
Reputation: 429
"356 people starred this issue..." 357 now. – hyperslug – 2009-07-26T07:20:54.850
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There are some bookmarklets over at http://feeds.ramisp.org/.
zacharyliu
Posted 2009-07-23T22:41:39.687
Reputation: 1 675
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Displaying XML in Chrome Browser
The author of the above post created a Google Chrome extension (for the dev channel version only right now) that will render XML (e.g., RSS) into a tree like view, ala Firefox and IE.
arathorn
Posted 2009-07-23T22:41:39.687
Reputation: 8 559
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It's probably by design. It just means support for the RSS format was not designed into Chrome.
Miky Dinescu
Posted 2009-07-23T22:41:39.687
Reputation: 411
RSS is not a protocol. – whitequark – 2010-08-19T14:02:14.513
1@whitequerk: you're right, it's not a protocol, it's a format but for all intents and purposes the answer was correct in essence. – Miky Dinescu – 2011-05-25T20:32:58.537
1I discovered doing QA on my site's RSS feeds. There are versions of RSS feeds out there that do render properly in Chrome-- the NY Times feeds for example. I haven't investigated reason for the difference, hoping someone would know... – None – 2009-07-24T01:01:29.863
right click -> view source, until they fix it. – hyperslug – 2009-07-26T02:09:05.027