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To start, it let me import an OPML file straight from Feedreader so that I didn’t have to manually re-enter each feed location—something that I found annoying in Live Bookmarks and the Google personal homepage. Also, it operates nicely in a sidebar that I can open and close with the click of a button, or use the quick ALT-S keyboard shortcut. All articles are displayed in the main Firefox window, and I can even middle-click them to open in a new tab if I don’t want my current reading interrupted. And best of all it displays articles (reverse) chronologically, so that I don’t have to look at anything besides the top article title to see what’s newest.
Best of all, you can create an account on the Wizz server to store a copy of everything. That way I can install the extension on Firefox at home (or on a laptop, theoretically), and quickly synchronize my bookmarks on both systems. It saves me the trouble of exporting an OPML file, saving it, downloading it somewhere else and re-importing. With a couple of clicks I can make sure my Wizz feeds are synched from anywhere!
I love having a feed program integrated with my browser. The Firefox Live Bookmarks are a joke. Feedreader worked well, but it would require that I launch a separate browser application to follow links without disrupting my reading. Plus little notifications would pop up on my screen any time an update was found—and I never figured out how to turn that off.
All in all I am a happy feed-reading fella!
Well I’m sold. I’m going to replace my current RSS feed reader.