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Playing Catch-Up: Google Chrome to Get RSS Auto-Discovery

Last week, when Google Chrome came out of beta, many of you wondered what the rush was, given the lack of support for extensions, not to mention the absence of a Mac version of the Web browser.

Today, it looks like at least one other common request – auto-discovery of RSS feeds – is on the list of priorities for the Google Chrome team to address.

Documentation posted to the Chrome development site explains how it will work. In Chrome’s address/search bar, an RSS icon will appear. Clicking on it “will redirect the user to feed, nicely formatted for the browser.”

Like Firefox, you’ll then be given a pull-down menu listing feed readers you can use to the subscribe to – a list that Google notes is still to-be-determined. Internet Explorer offers similar functionality, though as Webware notes, it takes the very Microsoft-like approach of using itself as the feed reading software.

It looks like Google is doing RSS auto-discovery the right way, though, it’s hard to believe that Chrome is considered “out of beta” when it’s lacking such a standard feature. But as Chrome enthusiasts (including myself) noted on our previous post, it’s all about speed, and most Chrome users simply use a second browser for functions not yet supported by the Google browser.

Hopefully, it’s not too long until that need is eliminated. Currently, it’s not known when Mac support, extensions, or RSS auto-discovery will be pushed live.

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