Brief
Discover Brief: Your Ultimate RSS Feed Reader
Transform the way you read and manage your RSS feeds with Brief. This intuitive add-on offers a seamless interface for bookmarking and tagging interesting articles with just one click. Choose to browse through unread or bookmarked posts, view a single feed or an entire folder, and customize how you want to see your news—whether by displaying full items or just headlines.
With a handy search feature, you can quickly locate any news item, while the notification system keeps you updated on new content. Brief also allows keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation, making it easy for you to stay on top of your reading. Experience powerful yet straightforward RSS management with Brief—download now and streamline your news consumption!
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- notifications
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User reviews
- Customizable and flexible interface
- Free to use with open-source principles
- Long-time user satisfaction and positive experience
- Recent updates caused functionality issues
- Search box is non-functional, making it hard to manage large feeds
- Difficulties with feed organization and management
- Broken subscription mechanism for feeds
- Functionality and ability to customize
- Issues with search box not working
- Problems with feed subscription and management
- Recent updates causing the add-on to become less usable
User reviews
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Brief requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Brief has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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