Subscribe to and Read RSS Feeds with Internet Explorer

If you like to keep up to date with your RSS feeds, but are not where you have an Use RSS Feeds, you can still do it. Here you can do it with Internet Explorer.

Steps

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Ensure that you've selected to view the Command toolbar. The Command toolbar will display a button on Internet 7, 8, and 9 and any upcoming versions for any RSS feed that is detected on a webpage.
    • Right click any place in the open portion near the tabs area of your browser.
    • Click "Command bar", if you notice the item not having a checkmark to left of the item name.
  3. Browse through your web pages you visit and commonly look for the orange new light button to become visible.
  4. Click the drop-down button that is visible now, to select this option.
  5. Select the RSS feed's name, the browser saw.
  6. Look for the top orange bar at the top of the white portion of the webpage. This is the bar that will give you the option to save your feed for later viewing.
  7. Click "Subscribe to this feed" button. It will then ask you to confirm your subscription activity.
  8. Click the "Subscribe" button.
  9. Wait a few moments for the new orange bar (confirming a successful addition to the "Common Feeds" list.



Tips

  • Other Microsoft programs (such as Windows Live Mail portion of Windows Live Essentials) include ways to add RSS feeds and manage feeds to and from your browser, but incur harder ways to add RSS feeds, such as selecting the RSS feed text and adding the feed through the software itself), so you can read the feed for later viewing in your Internet Explorer browser. Therefore, be super-careful not to add feeds of incriminating evidence that you don't want other unauthorized people to see!
  • You can change the name of the RSS feed to whatever you wish to save the view in the Common Feed List by typing a new name in the name box on the "Subscribe to this Feed" dialog box prior to clicking the "Subscribe" button.
  • You can get to the Common Feeds list by clicking the star icon in either the right-hand corner (Internet Explorer 9) of your browser, or click on the Feeds tab, and click on the feed name you added to review any new postings that have been recently posted (on Internet Explorer 7 and 8).
  • You can sort this list on some RSS feed aggregators by either date posted, or one of several ways, and this may be changed at any time.
  • If you don't wish to save the feed for later viewing, you don't have to go any further than selecting the feed's name from the first drop-down list.
  • For a list of popular RSS feed locations, you can either browse the web or find them on search engines. You can also do a search for "RSS feeds" on any major search page (Bing, Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc.) (search term should just be "RSS feed(s), (term name or topic name)". Make sure to add the space in between these two terms, and make sure it has the correct grammar such as correct capitalization and spaces in between your popular words).
  • On browsers earlier than Internet Explorer 9, the Command bar can never be turned off from the browser.
  • Your Internet Explorer browser comes preinstalled with a few feeds, once you install or upgrade to an Internet Explorer browser with the RSS feature. Although some of the older feeds on Internet Explorer's 7 and 8 browsers don't work well, there are replacements directly from Microsoft, that you can easily upgrade to.

Warnings

  • Not all web pages have RSS feeds. Internet Explorer will detect feeds that are RSS, Atom as well as many other forms, as they become more-widely known.
  • There's also another type of button that will display on the command bar that is green that will replace the orange icon at times. This green button isn't the same button for detecting RSS feeds. It is called the web-slice button, but it is truthfully rarely seen. It rolled out with Internet Explorer 8, but it still happens on occasion.
  • If you are running an uncommon browser older than Internet Explorer 7, you'll need to upgrade (for free) to one of the newer browsers. However, keep in mind that their newest browsers (Internet Explorer 10 and 11 are only available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10) and that Microsoft Edge no longer includes a feature to find RSS feeds when they occur. Internet Explorer 6 and below will not be able to detect these feeds and will not display these pages at all, causing the browser to crash.

Things You'll Need

  • Internet Explorer browser
  • RSS feed to subscribe to and read

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