How do I show raw XML for an RSS feed in Firefox?

Internet Explorer has this option, Turn on feed reading view:

Option for Feed reading view

When unchecked, clicked Atom feeds will show as raw XML.

How can I do the same thing in Firefox?

Vaccano

Posted 2011-07-22T17:57:54.170

Reputation: 5 977

Answers

You could write this in your browser's Internet address bar:

view-source:{RSS-FEED-URI}

DavideDM

Posted 2011-07-22T17:57:54.170

Reputation: 141

Yes, this works (but *without the braces*). Example: view-source:https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/forth – Peter Mortensen – 2017-09-25T18:35:47.183

2{RSS-FEED-URI} is a placeholder. – DavideDM – 2018-01-16T05:57:48.737

Try this: Feed Proxy.

It allows you to see the raw feed source.

TookTheRook

Posted 2011-07-22T17:57:54.170

Reputation: 3 127

Thank you for your answer. However, I will need to have my feed be an authenticated feed. Feed Proxy does not allow that. (Also, I was hoping that now that firefox 5 is out that this limitation has been "fixed".) – Vaccano – 2011-07-22T18:43:10.533

Check this: http://superuser.com/questions/81892/how-to-reset-firefox-rss-feed-handling

– TookTheRook – 2011-07-22T18:44:39.533

Alas, this does not give you the xml view. It just shows how to open (or not open in this case) a webfeed in another application. I guess I can just have firefox open in IE, but that seems kind of lame. – Vaccano – 2011-07-22T19:31:26.013

@Vaccano, there seems to be a hack. It is for 2.x though http://www.walkernews.net/2007/11/20/how-to-view-rss-feed-in-xml-format-with-firefox/

– Reddy – 2011-09-07T05:55:28.207