When I read on Erik's blog that Sage 1.3 was released with Live Bookmark support, I was ecstatic. I immediately converted all of my RSS feeds from normal bookmarks to Live Bookmarks (it was as simple as editing bookmarks.html - the file where Firefox stores your bookmarks - and changing all incidences of HREF to FEEDURL in the section of the file where my RSS feeds were located).
Sage now interprets Live Bookmarks just as it does regular bookmarks, allowing the user to subscribe to feeds using the auto-discovery mechanism in Firefox.
Alas, contrary to the release notes, Sage 1.3 does not treats Live Bookmarks just like regular bookmarks. With regular bookmarks, when you click the "Check Feeds" button on Sage's sidebar, Sage iterates through your entire list of RSS feeds. When it finds a feed that has been updated, the bookmark's icon changes.
With Live Bookmarks, this "update" behavior does not occur. While Live Bookmarks appear "normally" in Sage's sidebar, there is no integrated mechanism for updating them. As a result, one must either manually update each Live Bookmark (by right-clicking on it and selecting "Refresh Bookmark") or remember which of their RSS feeds are Live Bookmarks (as opposed to standard bookmarks) and double-clicking on them, which would display the RSS items in the Live Bookmark's feed in a submenu.
You are not the only one that is dissappointed regarding the integration of live bookmarks in Sage.
I filed a bug for the issue you mentioned. http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8185
Personally I'm not really sure how the integration should be done but the way it is now does not feel right.
Actually, I already filed a bug ( http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8058 ).
I marked Erik's bug a duplicate of Martey's. Seemed like the right thing to do, no offence I hope :)
Thinking Old Thoughts: Live Bookmarks and Sage, Again
Last night, I decided to switch all of my RSS feed bookmarks over to Live Bookmarks. I was then dismayed to find that clicking the "Check Feeds" button in Sage did not update my Live Bookmarks.
So dismayed that I began to look for another RSS read…