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Darwin:
I'm still with Feeddemon 2 - the resource utilization doesn't seem like a big deal to me when assessed relative to its functionality. As noted above, I tend to open it up, read all of the feeds that have been updated since the last time I had it open, and close it again... I've tried a number of alternatives, including GreatNews, and keep coming back to Feeddemon.

justice:
The thing is, I don't want to read the same news twice, so a local RSS reader needs to synchronize between home and work. Or I use a web one. However I then start to add al my feeds (at least 30) then notice how much time it costs to catch up, so then I don't bother reading any. It's just impossible.

tranglos:
How about Google Reader?
http://www.google.com/reader/view/

I bought FeedDemon a long time ago, before the author got bought out (again! Remind me never to buy anything by Nick Bradbury, even though he's an awesome coder). I liked it, but it was always sluggish, and the newer releases even more so. I also missed feaures, like easy copying URL to clipboard, or saving images. Obviously these features are directly accessible from any browser, and indeed the browser is the "native" environment for RSS. Once I tried Google Reader, I never looked back.

Google Reader might be a little cumbersome if you had hundreds of feeds, but I'm subscribed to about 30, and for that the interface is very convenient. One nice touch: you can play podcasts directly in the reader, or you can download the source file - Google always supplies a direct link to the file.

nosh:
Google Reader is an excellent alternative - I have my feeds mirrored there just in case I need to check them when I'm on another PC. However, for someone who has a slow connection (256 kbps) I find an offline app like FeedDemon way more responsive that Google Reader.

The high CPU/memory consumption bug I was facing in FeedDemon is an acknowledged one and can be avoided by disabling HTTP 1.1 in IE (I don't know the technical implications but doing this doesn't seem to have had any noticable effect on my browsing.)

I still maintain that GreatNews is an excellent alternative, it's free, seems to be very efficiently coded and all the controls (collapsible trees, etc) respond quicker than their counterparts in FeedDemon. The only reason I'm still sticking with FeedDemon is their "Expando" view (a feature, sadly lacking in GreatNews) which makes reading much more user friendly. I'm dumping FeedDemon the day GreatNews incorporates this feature but for now it's very much the #1 app.

ak_:
I'm still looking for the perfect rss reader. I thought i had found it with Omea Reader, which is really great but eats way too much memory. I don't really like web-based readers because i like being noticed of new posts, especially new comments on my blog (in this case, i like to have some kind of balloon poping up or something ...). Greatnews is nice but it misses a filter system (ie in Omea Reader, i have a "Unread" filter and a "Unread blogs" filter).

Yesterday i ran into this and i'm thinking about making a AHK script to check new messages and comments on my Google Reader account (with tray notifications etc). Do you think there could be a way to log in and retrieve user ID (cookie) within the script itself ? I think it would be the tricky part.

PS : i know "Google Reader notifier" exists but it won't install on my machine.

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