Add RSS Scheme to Firefox Applications

[un_l0ckd]

Hi,

I think it would be great if RSS feeds were added to the Applications menu in Firefox > Settings > General > Applications. Users should be able to select an RSS feed reader (or extension) in the "Action" menu so that opening an RSS feed link automatically imports it into the user's RSS reader of choice.

 

Bonus: Allow advanced users to modify the entries in the Application menu by letting us add mime types and associated applications to handle those mime types. This would enable users to have more control over which applications handle which mime types.

Thank you for your consideration!

[Jon]

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[qjmxzecv]

Allow advanced users to modify the entries in the Application menu by letting us add mime types and associated applications to handle those mime types. This would enable users to have more control over which applications handle which mime types.

I guess very advanced users could redirect files to another application by first registering the application as a protocol handler [1] and then creating a browser extension that captures responses [2] that have the specific MIME type (e.g. application/rss+xml) and sends a new request to the external app using the registered protocol.

Note that capturing responses is only possible for Manifest V2 extensions, which are soon only available on Firefox. Chrome and relatives can probably do something similar with the PWA file_handlers API [3].

[1] https://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Manifest/Reference/file_handlers