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Integration of the CITA RSS Aggregator with FireFox 2

Firefox is a widely-used browser and the main competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. FireFox 2 introduces a new feature that allows FireFox to integrate with third party Aggregators.

If FireFox detects the presence of a feed it displays a feed logo next to the address bar like this:

Firefox can be configured so that when you click this logo, the feed is automatically added to a third party aggregator.

The CITA RSS Aggregator comes with a subscription utility that allows you to add feeds to the Aggregator or a range of alternate aggregators.

Follow these instructions to integrate the new version of the subscription utility with FireFox 2.

1. Use FireFox to navigate to a page containing an RSS Feed. For example: www.SeeITA.com/RSSA.
2. Click the orange feed icon to the right of the address bar. You will see the feed displayed in the FireFox internal feed reader.
3. Use the drop down next to "Subscribe to this feed using" at the top of the page to select option "Choose application...".
4. Select RSSSubscribe.exe in the RSS Aggregator program directory (by default, C:\Program Files\CITA\RSS Aggregator) and click 'Open'.
5. Make sure option 'Always use to subscribe to feeds' is checked.
6. Click 'Subscribe now'.
7. The subscription utility will offer to subscribe you to the feed you selected. Click 'Exit' if you don't want to subscribe.
8. From now on, the subscription utility will run automatically whenever you click the FireFox feed logo.