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And since then, the other browsers have removed their native RSS/Atom feed support. Firefox and Safari both used to have it and have since removed it. Visiting an RSS feed in Safari now shows you a page that resembles a 404, telling you that Safari no longer supports feeds.

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Yup. For firefox, having features that chrome doesn't, seems silly to them. It's not like they need market share or anything! Just remove fully functional, mature and feature complete code, cause why not?

No FTP, RSS, etc.

FTP is the one that really annoys me. It was a minimal implementation which would let me download a few ad hoc files as required. Now I have to launch a separate program every time.

At least with RSS, I can manually parse the XML in a pinch.

> Visiting an RSS feed in Safari now shows you a page that resembles a 404, telling you that Safari no longer supports feeds.

For me it shows an alert asking if I want to subscribe in my installed feed reader.

It's both odd and appalling.

Safari "development" is such an odd bag of changes. I sill miss the old dashboard widget maker that let you select a section of just about any page and use it as a widget.

And if you don't have a feed reader installed, that modal will send you to the App Store, with "RSS" as the search term (at least on macOS).

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