Ticker Tape News for Firefox

Topics Firefox on March 17th, 2008

I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to the news but I have the radio on throughout the day whilst I’m working and always try to catch the hourly bulletins, but for those of you who need a constant fix of the goings on around the world here’s a great Firefox add-on. It’s called RSS Ticker and the idea is the latest news headlines scroll across the bottom of your browser window, and if something catches your eye, click on it for a summary, or double click to see the whole item.

It works with any website providing RSS feeds but it’s obviously more interesting with constantly updated news sites, and BBC News is a very good example. It’s easy to install, just download the add-on, restart Firefox, pop along to your favourite news site, click the orange RSS icon, click Yes when it asks to create a bookmark, restart Firefox and away it goes.