How do I show raw XML for an RSS feed in Firefox?

Question

Internet Explorer has this option, Turn on feed reading view:

Option for Feed reading view

When unchecked, clicked Atom feeds will show as raw XML.

How can I do the same thing in Firefox?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 08 '17 at 21:40

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You could write this in your browser's Internet address bar:

view-source:{RSS-FEED-URI}

edited Oct 08 '17 at 21:40

Peter Mortensen

answered Oct 10 '14 at 10:49

DavideDM

Yes, this works (but ***without the braces***). Example: `view-source:https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/forth` – Peter Mortensen Sep 25 '17 at 18:35
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{RSS-FEED-URI} is a placeholder. – DavideDM Jan 16 '18 at 05:57
doesn't seem to work anymore :/ – xeruf Jun 04 '20 at 21:11
which versions of firefox have you? Seems that the new versions doesn't support it.Thank you for the error reporting. – DavideDM Jun 05 '20 at 06:10

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '11 at 18:19

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Try this: Feed Proxy.

It allows you to see the raw feed source.

answered Jul 22 '11 at 18:19

TookTheRook

Thank you for your answer. However, I will need to have my feed be an authenticated feed. Feed Proxy does not allow that. (Also, I was hoping that now that firefox 5 is out that this limitation has been "fixed".) – Vaccano Jul 22 '11 at 18:43
Check this: http://superuser.com/questions/81892/how-to-reset-firefox-rss-feed-handling – TookTheRook Jul 22 '11 at 18:44
Alas, this does not give you the xml view. It just shows how to open (or not open in this case) a webfeed in another application. I guess I can just have firefox open in IE, but that seems kind of lame. – Vaccano Jul 22 '11 at 19:31
@Vaccano, there seems to be a hack. It is for 2.x though http://www.walkernews.net/2007/11/20/how-to-view-rss-feed-in-xml-format-with-firefox/ – Reddy Sep 07 '11 at 05:55

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