How to read RSS feeds in Chrome

TabCmdr's way

Read your feeds from any page with TabCmdr

TabCmdr is a keyboard launcher that lives in your browser. Its RSS reader pulls the newest articles from all the feeds you add into one list in the palette, so you can catch up from whatever page you’re on.

Before you start: add TabCmdr from the Chrome Web Store. It has a 7-day free trial and needs no account.

Step 1: Add your feeds

Open the palette, type :rss and choose RSS Settings under Quick Actions at the bottom of the list. You can also get there from TabCmdr’s settings: choose Tools in the sidebar and click the settings button next to RSS Reader.

Paste a feed address into the box under Your Feeds and click Add Feed. The address has to start with https://, and you can add up to 20 feeds. Click the dot next to a feed to give it a color, or Remove to take it off the list.

Below your feeds, Sample Feeds lists well-known feeds you can add with one click.

Step 2: Open the reader

Press ⌘+K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux, and type :rss. Articles from every feed are listed newest first, each with its feed’s name and how long ago it was posted.

To see one feed, click its tag at the top of the list. To find an article, type a word from its title or the feed’s name.

Step 3: Open an article

Move to an article with ↓ and ↑ and press Enter. It opens in a new tab and the palette closes.

Keep the list fresh

TabCmdr fetches your feeds in the background and keeps them for 15 minutes. Refresh Feeds at the bottom of the list fetches them all again right away. If a feed can’t be reached, the list shows it as an error and the other feeds still load.