Brief - feed reading extension for Firefox

I've moved your thread as Customization only deals on how to customize Brief and sharing customizations you made for Brief.

You can double click anywhere in an item container to mark that item read. If you're using keyboard navigation instead and have highlighting enabled, then pressing "M" on the keyboard will mark the currently highlighted item as read.

I'll vote for this one.

It's redundant though. Redundant options bloat programs. You don't want Brief to become bloated do you?

Since the discovery of d/click=mark read (with this article) I've tried using it, but the problem is that when you have a really long article, read to the bottom, double-click to mark it read, you now have to scroll back to the top to find the next unread article. This would probably have the same affect with mark read buttons at the bottom, so I'm not sure how one would go about solving the issue.

Hi,
I came here to request this feature, too. Please just clone the "mark as read" and the "delete" button at the end, bloated or not, it's really annoying to scroll long articles back up just to click that button.
Besides that, I LOVE brief!!! Thanks alot, I use it every day and cannot think of being without it... :)
 

Help yourself: Just modify feedview.css

extensions\brief@mozdev.org\defaults\feedview.css

Change
.article-controls {
float: right;
margin: -2px 0 0 5px;
}

to

.article-controls {
float: right;
margin: -2px 0 0 5px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 5px;
right: 5px;
}

Hannes

The double click for marking 'read' is indeed very useful, but it's only one of the three controls at the top.
 
By far the most important thing to fix for me is 'long article skip', which happens when you're a significantly down the reader page, mark an article 'read' and the next long one is pulled up into its place - only you're now far into the middle of it!  Even worse is if many small articles follow the long one....

• How about a 'Return to top of article' button?

This could be a blue, upward-pointing arrow resting in the bottom corner of each article, and would not represent any kind of bloat, as its own usefulness is readily apparent.
 
Plus, the options could have a setting that would let the article be marked as 'read' at the very same time!
 
Brief is not only my favourite feed reader, it beats every other one I've ever dared to try, I love it - so please consider this 'solution' to this common problem, and thank you!