Hacker News Reader

I use an external feed reader, inoreader (and am thinking about using Gnome Feeds or whatever its called when it's a little less buggy), so it's useful for that anyways. I can just paste the home page in instead of digging around for a feed link in footers and what not. But I take your point, Firefox removing support really hurt me at the time too.

I use https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee... to restore this functionality.

I believe the rss:// protocol could (still can?) be used to shell out to your reader.

Nobody uses the rss:// protocol in their <link>.