This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Ffox RSS icon remains inactive for my RSS-enabled website. Why?

  • 7 replies
  • 2 have this problem
  • 4 views
  • Last reply by ander360

ander360
ander360
more options

My website, http://www.dailydetox.org is RSS enabled. Yet, the RSS icon on the left of the URL field remains inactive when I go to my site. Can someone kindly explain to me why? Thanks in advance. Best, Ande

My website, http://www.dailydetox.org is RSS enabled. Yet, the RSS icon on the left of the URL field remains inactive when I go to my site. Can someone kindly explain to me why? Thanks in advance. Best, Ande

All Replies (7)

Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Man
more options

I don't see the feed defined anywhere in the source. Put the following in the <head> section. 

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.dailydetox.org/feed.xml" />

Also see

ander360
ander360 Question owner
more options

Gingerbread_Man, it worked! You've made a camper a happy camper! My very best wishes to you. A

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

You can also check the source code of that page as Firefox is flagging some tags for errors.
You see this as red text and you can hover the tag with the mouse to see a tooltip with an explanation.

You are using a semicolon in a lot of cases as a separator for attributes in tags and Firefox sees these semicolons as an separate attribute.

You forgot to close the font tag here and that causes Firefox to flag the closing </ul> and closing and reopening this font tag multiple times (select the text and use View Selection Source to see the generated DOM source). 

<div id="navigation">
	<ul><font face="Arial"; size="2"> .... </ul></div>
ander360
ander360 Question owner
more options

cor-el, many thanks for your remarks! I shall look into rectifying the deficiencies. You guys are just great! My very best. AR

ander360
ander360 Question owner
more options

Gingerbread Man, On the strength of the success with Firefox, I'd like to enable my Thunderbird to reliably receive RSS feed messages. I have tried in the past, but it was patchy, and it would stop either after the first abortive (due to errors in the feed.xml) feed attempt, or it would simply stop receiving valid feed. What would you advise I do, or how would you suggest I set up my Thunderbird so that I receive the feed reliably. (I can easily test it using my website.) Thanks in advance and best regards, AR

Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Man
more options

ander360 wrote: 

I'd like to enable my Thunderbird to reliably receive RSS feed messages.

I use Bamboo Feed Reader in Firefox, so I suggest you give it a go in Thunderbird.

If that's not satisfactory, please ask a new question about this separate issue.

Forum rules aside, I don't use Thunderbird; you're bound to get replies from people who are far more familiar with it if you ask a new question.

ander360
ander360 Question owner
more options

Gingerbread Man, you've resolved my RSS problem in Thunderbird. Many thanks! Best wishes. AR