Google sometimes plays fast and loose with standard words, such as the word “feed”. This doesn’t mean it’s a lock that we’ll see RSS feeds in the side panel though. I could easily read RSS feeds with an expanded side panel So, in theory, screen space isn’t really an issue from keeping Google out of the feed reader market again. However, there is an experimental feature I have installed that lets me adjust the size of the side panel. The side panel is rather small for reading full-text RSS feeds. I can understand Dinsan’s thought process here. “It will be tricky to incorporate an RSS feed reader into the side panel. And I don’t yet see a way to add an RSS feed to the side panel.Ĭhrome Story is ruling out a full feed reader here: Navigating to Feed in my side panel shows a connection error. Unfortunately, the functionality doesn’t yet work. I was able to add the option to my side panel, as shown because I’m using the Canary Channel of Lacros. This adds a “Feed” option to the other side panel actions, which are Reading List, Bookmarks, and Journeys. There’s an experimental feature flag in the ChromeOS Canary channel at chrome://flags#following-feed-sidepanel. It’s difficult to tell, so let’s examine the evidence. I was a heavy user of the app and among the many who weren’t happy to see Google pull the plug.īut maybe it’s coming back, of sorts. It was a fairly popular RSS web app that provided a way to follow website feeds. The question now: Is Google Reader coming back?Īs a refresher, Google Reader was depreciated (a nicer way to say killed in software words) back in 2013. Dinsan reports that the Side Panel in both the Chrome browser and ChromeOS is getting a “Feed” option. I’ve been digging deeper into RSS lately, so this article from Chrome Story is rather timely.

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