How to disable Firefox Live Bookmarks

Question

Before this, RSS pages were displayed in the browser window with a nice formatting as a content.

On an RSS page, I accidentally checked Always use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to podcasts. and then the Subscribe Now button. (Note that I have a non-default dark theme in Firefox, but this is still just native Firefox.)

Now every time I visit the RSS page, the content is not displayed, and all I get is a dialog titled Subscribe with Live Bookmarks.

I searched on the Internet, and I found that I should go to the Tools menu (in F10 or Alt + T), select Options, then on the Applications tab I should filter to Web Feeds and set it to Preview in Firefox.

Now here is my problem. I still only get the dialog titled "Subscribe with Live Bookmarks". I've tried to disable all Add-ons from the Help menu and start Firefox in safe mode, but it didn't help. I've even tried to delete the live bookmark I added, but it didn't help neither.

My Firefox version is 17.0.1, I'm running on Windows XP pro SP3 32-bit, my user is administrator, I have all rights in the Mozilla folder in Appdata, and I have more GB free disk space.

What should I do to make Firefox display the RSS pages again as content, instead of bookmarking?

Answer 1

I found out that in the about:config page (URL/address), if I write "feeds" to the filter, I get several pages that are not on their default settings, but user set.

I reset them all by right clicking them and selecting Reset all of them.

Now it works! Firefox is displaying RSS pages as content again!

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Fellow users or user experience designers may find my detailed struggle useful.

The setting names make it evident that not all RSS go by the name "Web feeds". I probably "should have realized" in the first place that they are called podcasts (as they are that), but, to me, these were always just RSS pages.

I went instead to menu Tools → Options → Applications again, and wrote "feeds" to the search box. But I got only "Web Feeds". (I've also tried "audio", no luck). I searched then for any entry with an "RSS icon". That's how I realized that "Podcast" and "Video Podcast" is where it must be set, if you use the UI.