I’ve realised another gaping hole in Chrome. One that is more significant than the lack of adblock options.

Chrome does not auto-detect the prescence of feeds in a page. Visit a page with correct auto-detection links for an RSS, Atom or other syndication feed in Firefox, IE7 or any other modern browser and you will have an icon for the syndication feeds with easy options to subscribe.

Chrome does not provide this.

You’d think that with Reader, iGoogle and Desktop all consuming feeds. With Google having a dedicated feed fetcher that has helped define standards for reporting subscribers from feed aggregators and so forth. That a next generation browser, written from the ground up for the state of web browsing in 2008 would understand and deal with feeds natively.

Firefox did from the first days. And it has lots of options for extending and enhancing this native feed sniffing support.

Chrome has nothing.

I didn’t find this until I was linked to a new, interesting blog and wanted to subscribe. I had to hunt the page with my eyes to find the feed link and subscribe by hand. To Google Reader.

Trick missed?

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