So I was looking at the row of extension buttons in Google Chrome, specifically hunting for the RSS Live Links icon so I could catch up on search news. When I realized…it was gone. I looked in my list of installed extensions to see if it had gotten switched to inactive for some reason. Nowhere to be found.
Where on earth did it go? I hunted around a bit, and found this.
As the original author of RSS Live Links, I sold the extension in January to what I thought would be a safe home. Unfortunately, that home then sold it on. I have contacted the new owners and have received a very curt reply that Google pulled the extension (I have not been told why) and that they are working to reinstate it.
I apologise to all for this – my intention when selling it was to ensure its continued survival in the face of my lack of time to maintain it.
Well, isn’t that unfortunate. Fortunately I found a good replacement: RSS Feed Reader. If you’re a Chrome user looking for a good RSS extension, seriously check it out. It’s everything RSS Live Links was and then some.
Now, if you’ll excuse me…I need to go hunt down a bunch of RSS feeds. 🙁
Hi, your post is quite old but I still have and use RSS Live Links.
I first tested RSS Feed a few years but then discovered RSS Live Links that was really much more efficient to use than RSS Feed Reader and whenever it has a much nicer graphical interface I still prefer RSS Live Links.
By the way it is possible to copy an installed extension into an other Chrome.
In case anyone else pops into this site doing the same research I did; I’ve been using RSS Live Links for a while now but I think I just figured out why Google yanked the extension.
RSS Live Links is serving up the Ad by Advertise ‘malware’.
I started seeing it’s crap overlays on several webpages today. Systematically disabled my extensions until I found the culprit – RSS Live Links. Disabled and the crap overlays went away, re-enabled and they returned.
Off to find a different RSS feeder…
Know what? I was having the exact same problem today. RSS Live Links is indeed the culprit. Such a shame – it’s always been my preferred RSS feeder.
Just found the same problem here, that RSS Live Links is serving up that “Ad by Advertise” crapware. Once I deactivated that, the problem went away. Will need to find another RSS app, I s’pose. Sorry to see such a good app go bad.
-Gabe
This is the one I’m using for now. Seems like a suitable alternative so far.