HowTo: Thunderbird RSS & Digg 3.0
If you’re having trouble with the Digg RSS feeds under Thunderbird ever since they upgraded the system to “version 3.0″, it’s because you have to be logged in. The trouble? Thunderbird supports no way to log in and cookie support is blocked by default.
However, according to MozillaZine, all you have to do is copy your cookies.txt file from your Firefox profile folder to your Thunderbird profile folder, then add the following line to prefs.js (in your ~/.thunderbird directory):
user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 3);
(Be sure to have shut down Thunderbird before making this change; it writes all preferences on close to the JS file.)
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trey Says:
June 30th, 2006 at 11:21:10what if you are like me and routinely delete all cookies, history, etc every other week? that’s going to get real annoying real fast.
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Michael Says:
June 30th, 2006 at 15:29:29Delete all cookies, then go to Digg and login. Close Firefox, copy that cookies.txt file with the single record into the Thunderbir profile folder. That should do it.
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just wondering Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 09:03:30Well, it’s been a couple years, but maybe you’ll still read this…
If I had a digg account — which I don’t and do not want — assuming everything else was set up properly according to your above instructions, would clicking on a message in tbird open the ultimate destination site, or just open the digg page with all the useless comments and advertsing, wherein I would have to then click the link to open the destination URL?
I am just curious, as, if the behavior was the former, that would upgrade my chance of ever making a digg account to “snowball’s chance in hell”, from the current “zero, and I mean ZERO!” (If the behavior was the latter, I think that would somehow actually reduce the probability to below zero!!!)
BTW this text box I am typing in right now has bad behavior under IE6. Keeps expanding beyond the right extent of my screen. (If I open/close the ‘favorites’ pane, it resizes to the proper size when the document pane is redrawn, but as soon as I type a character, it expands again. Also, if u are trying to recreate, I am running 1600×1200 desktop resolution, and I had the favorites pane open when I first came to the site.)
(Yes, I know IE6 is the bastard stepmother of all browsers, but I need a MS browser for work and IE7 sucks 10x worse.)
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April 2nd, 2008 at 16:46:34Hey there, just wondering:
What Thunderbird displays depends entirely on the feed data available. In some feeds, you have nothing but a title and a link to the website (in this case, Digg); in others, it is possible that you’d see the entire Digg page. (Last I checked, this was the behavioral difference between Digg’s RSS 2.0 feed and its Atom feed.) On the other hand, all feeds that link to, say, Perry Bible Fellowship, the online comic, have ONLY a title and nothing more; this is to drive traffic to the webserver interactively.
That said, at this point, if you need integration with Microsoft products and Exchange servers and so forth, you would do well to consider Evolution . Frankly, I’ve been using 64-bit Linux on my personal machines and 32-bit WinXP Pro at work, so I use GMail and Google Reader to keep track of this sort of thing these days for the sake of cross-platform compatibility.
Also, thank you for your troubleshooting help with the layout–I’m revamping the site to use a Drupal backend instead of this old clunky WordPress interface. I still reply to comments, though, so feel free; and I’m the only person who sees your email address when you enter it, so I’ll of course be glad to correspond with you off-ThinkBlog.
Be well and thanks again.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:21:10
what if you are like me and routinely delete all cookies, history, etc every other week? that’s going to get real annoying real fast.
June 30th, 2006 at 15:29:29
Delete all cookies, then go to Digg and login. Close Firefox, copy that cookies.txt file with the single record into the Thunderbir profile folder. That should do it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 09:03:30
Well, it’s been a couple years, but maybe you’ll still read this…
If I had a digg account — which I don’t and do not want — assuming everything else was set up properly according to your above instructions, would clicking on a message in tbird open the ultimate destination site, or just open the digg page with all the useless comments and advertsing, wherein I would have to then click the link to open the destination URL?
I am just curious, as, if the behavior was the former, that would upgrade my chance of ever making a digg account to “snowball’s chance in hell”, from the current “zero, and I mean ZERO!” (If the behavior was the latter, I think that would somehow actually reduce the probability to below zero!!!)
BTW this text box I am typing in right now has bad behavior under IE6. Keeps expanding beyond the right extent of my screen. (If I open/close the ‘favorites’ pane, it resizes to the proper size when the document pane is redrawn, but as soon as I type a character, it expands again. Also, if u are trying to recreate, I am running 1600×1200 desktop resolution, and I had the favorites pane open when I first came to the site.)
(Yes, I know IE6 is the bastard stepmother of all browsers, but I need a MS browser for work and IE7 sucks 10x worse.)
April 2nd, 2008 at 16:46:34
Hey there, just wondering:
What Thunderbird displays depends entirely on the feed data available. In some feeds, you have nothing but a title and a link to the website (in this case, Digg); in others, it is possible that you’d see the entire Digg page. (Last I checked, this was the behavioral difference between Digg’s RSS 2.0 feed and its Atom feed.) On the other hand, all feeds that link to, say, Perry Bible Fellowship, the online comic, have ONLY a title and nothing more; this is to drive traffic to the webserver interactively.
That said, at this point, if you need integration with Microsoft products and Exchange servers and so forth, you would do well to consider Evolution . Frankly, I’ve been using 64-bit Linux on my personal machines and 32-bit WinXP Pro at work, so I use GMail and Google Reader to keep track of this sort of thing these days for the sake of cross-platform compatibility.
Also, thank you for your troubleshooting help with the layout–I’m revamping the site to use a Drupal backend instead of this old clunky WordPress interface. I still reply to comments, though, so feel free; and I’m the only person who sees your email address when you enter it, so I’ll of course be glad to correspond with you off-ThinkBlog.
Be well and thanks again.