Brief - feed reading extension for Firefox

Moved to General.

Brief can already do what you're looking for. Just right click Brief's icon in the status bar and select "Mark All Feeds As Read" to mark all unread items in all feeds read.

To only mark a feed as read without affecting the other feeds, right click a feed name in the left pane while in Brief and select "Mark Feed as Read". This marks the feed as read.

To only mark the current page of the feed or view you're on, Ctrl + left click the "Mark All Items as Read" button on the feed control bar (that bar with Previous Page, Next Page, Turn On/Off Headlines View, etc...).

"It's far too easy to mark everything read when you only wanted the page read,..."

Yes, that is true.
thanks mica

Actually I disagree. Where the button is located, the intuitive behavior is to mark the view read, especially since you can mark all feeds read by r-clicking the status bar icon (which is a GoodThing™).

Besides... if you're going to mark everything read without reading, why bother getting the feeds? ;)

"do away with pagination altogether"

This sounds scary. Care to elucidate?

Help yourself!

Close Firefox
Make a backup of extensions\brief@mozdev.org\chrome\brief.jar
Unzip extensions\brief@mozdev.org\chrome\brief.jar
Modify content\brief.js (line 191)

Change
markViewRead: function cmd_markViewRead(aEvent) {
var query = gFeedView.query;

if (aEvent.ctrlKey)
{
query.offset = gPrefs.entriesPerPage * (gFeedView.currentPage - 1);
query.limit = gPrefs.entriesPerPage;
}

query.markEntriesRead(true);
},

to

markViewRead: function cmd_markViewRead(aEvent) {
var query = gFeedView.query;

if (!aEvent.ctrlKey)
{
query.offset = gPrefs.entriesPerPage * (gFeedView.currentPage - 1);
query.limit = gPrefs.entriesPerPage;
}

query.markEntriesRead(true);
},

(just note the ! in the if)

Modify markViewRead.tooltip in brief.dtd in your language folder in locale (e.g. locale\de-DE\brief.dtd)

Unzip everything back to extensions\brief@mozdev.org\chrome\brief.jar

Start firefox.

Hannes

Thanks @hannesd
But this solution is temporal, every time that Brief is actualized, we must do this modification again.
I think that the default behavior of this button should be: mark page as read.
Regards.

I just installed Brief and this is the first thing I wanted to change, mark all items as read on the current page only, not everything.  Anyway if doing away with pagination altogether is a planned feature then it's not a big deal, hannesd's modification works fine for now.  Although google reader like functionality would be fantastic.  Anyway great addon!