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Product Description:
RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Supported OS are Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. Some features are export of news to PDF, Import / Export with OPML and the full-text-search with syntaxhighlight. For easy execution, a exe-file is provided on Windows, a shell-script on Linux / Solaris and the Mac version is deployed in an application bundle. RSSOwl comes with a huge list of sample favorites.
What's new in this version:
The RSSOwl development team is happy to announce the new version 1.2.3 of RSSOwl.
You can now subscribe to feeds with RSSOwl by passing the url of the feed as argument to the executing launcher (e.g. rssowl.exe on windows). This works very well with the new Firefox 2 where RSSOwl will be visible in the list of newsreaders to select when opening a feed in Firefox. In case you are already subscribed to the feed, it will display its content.
We continued to improve the security from the embedded browser on windows by disabling JavaScript when displaying the contents of a news. As soon as the Browser is navigating to a real website, JavaScript is being enabled again (based on your Internet Explorer settings ). This change is protecting RSSOwl from malicious JavaScript coming from a Feed so we highly recommend to update to the latest RSSOwl.
Information about news that are marked as read is now persisted at a certain interval while the application is running. This should finally fix the issue where this information got lost on an unclean shutdown.
The SWT library was updated to the most recent Version 3.2.1.
For a detailed list of changes that also include a lot of bugfixes, take a look at the changelog at http://www.rssowl.org/CHANGELOG.txt.
You can now subscribe to feeds with RSSOwl by passing the url of the feed as argument to the executing launcher (e.g. rssowl.exe on windows). This works very well with the new Firefox 2 where RSSOwl will be visible in the list of newsreaders to select when opening a feed in Firefox. In case you are already subscribed to the feed, it will display its content.
We continued to improve the security from the embedded browser on windows by disabling JavaScript when displaying the contents of a news. As soon as the Browser is navigating to a real website, JavaScript is being enabled again (based on your Internet Explorer settings ). This change is protecting RSSOwl from malicious JavaScript coming from a Feed so we highly recommend to update to the latest RSSOwl.
Information about news that are marked as read is now persisted at a certain interval while the application is running. This should finally fix the issue where this information got lost on an unclean shutdown.
The SWT library was updated to the most recent Version 3.2.1.
For a detailed list of changes that also include a lot of bugfixes, take a look at the changelog at http://www.rssowl.org/CHANGELOG.txt.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- Java VM 1.4
- Mac OS X
- Universal Binary
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Powerful! 
- Version: 1.2.2, 9/10/2006 11:55AM PST
ycc2106
For something free this is incredibly powerful and complete.
- SEARCH!
- Add feed from URL has one of the most powerful feed discovery tools I've seen.
- OPML Import was so quick!
- has a one click feed editing.
When starting off I was a bit confused as it first show the intro and no menu, but once you have a feed showing all the tools appear.
This Version Is Great! Works fine! - Version: 1.2.1, 4/24/2006 10:54AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
Razzledazzle
I have imported 150 feeds from Net News Wire as OPML file successfully and all works great. Good to have this RSS reader back and working great on all my Macs.
as soon as RSSOwl is activated, frontrow and even dashboard is losing it's pretty animation. the animation is not "flowing" anymore. doesn't look nice and is very slow. as soon as i close RSSOwl, pretty animations are back.
i don't know why... i also often have crashes when reading articles. even when doing nothing it suddenly crashes.
however, RSSOwl is my favourite newsreader. perhaps the developers can try to fix this frontrow issue.
greets and happy eastern
m. bach