My favorite feed reader is because I can read all entries without moving mouse pointer. The former one is Sage which is a Firefox extension. Sage is good but big at the same time. One good thing of Sage is cookie. Since Sage is integrated to Firefox, it read feeds with cookie authentication perfectly. Anyway, Sage is not the right one for me so I switched to Google Reader which is much more simpler. I had lived with Google Reader for a few months without problem until last week. I went to seminar in a hotel without network. That was a sad story. I was unable to read any feeds at all. So after I came back, I looked for an offline feed reader for the next chance. Eventually, I found Liferea, standed for Linux Feed Reader. What's a good name?

Why did I choose Liferea? (1) I searched for a kind of poll or review in Ubuntu Forums and I found a poll favorite rss reader. The winner is Liferea while the second one is KDE application. (2) Liferea supports OPML so I can import my feed list from Sage quickly. (3) It supports Enclosures so I can get podcasting to work out of the box. (4) It supports cookie with the same format to Firefox. (5) It supports filters to scrape websites or postprocess feeds. After used Liferea for a few days, I am very happy with it especially its filters capability. Since I have so many websites or forums without feed so I developed my own filters to parse those forums and then generate RSS feed for Liferea automatically. In some cases, description in feeds may too short. Filter can help this problem by automatically fetching the whole contents one by one.

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