@MsDropbear42 Update; happy one, i think.

Have been using Feedbro for years [with many excursions of various duration to test other #RSS AddOns], but recently my wunderlust returned [F has been doing some randomly irritating weirdarsenesses occasionally, like for many minutes after launching Nightly, simply ignoring my clicks on its toolbar icon's dropdown list of new feeds, & its native links even to open its UI... plus, there's still my long-term discomfort with aspects of its UI's ergonomics & aesthetics... and ofc that shitty name].

• a few nights ago i installed one i'd not seen before, RSS Sage-Like by arielg. It has a minimal UI [which opens in the FF sidebar] that is ok albeit lacks some important config options though having some others that are nice. It is like Brief & Livemarks in that it relies on the actual parent websites to stream the feeds... which i am now fine with despite my original aversion to this style. Its two big weaknesses though, which have driven me from it now, are that its icon does not indicate new feeds, so one must constantly manually check... & that it #necrofetches like a bastard, sigh.

• two nights ago i installed Brief again [i've had many dalliances with it over recent year/s], even though it's not been updated for 9 months, so logically should still have the same flaws i noted last time/s. However i wanted to assess if i might be able to tolerate them any better, this time. Thank goodness i did, coz i discovered a setting [per-feed, unfortunately, not global] i'd either not seen before or else not understood... "Don't mark changed items back as unread". This is fantastic, as now having tediously gone thru every feed's Properties ["Feed Settings" in the context menu] & ticked it, the #necrofetching problem seems to be quashed! IF this misbehaviour is now defeated, the only remaining issue will be... can i tolerate its "major compatibility problem with Guardian Australia mp3 podcasts"?