A: Easy flash support broke when Liferea 1.10 which uses
GTK3 is used with WebkitGTK3 versions before 2.0. For a detailed explanation
read this post.
There are the following known workarounds:
Upgrade WebkitGTK3 to 2.0 or later
Install nspluginwrapper and the 32bit flash plugin (instructions)
Q: Where can I get it?
A: The easiest way is to download the source package from
the SourceForge project page.
But you should also consider checking if your Linux distribution
provides an own package for Liferea. A list of all known prebuilt
packages is provided in the installation section.
Q: Enclosures download with Gwget doesn't work
A: Most likely you have Gwget 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 installed, and
due to a temporary breakage in the dbus API of Gwget these versions
don't work with Liferea. Both older and more recent versions of Gwget
do work.
Q: I'm using Firefox/Seamonkey, and when opening items in the browser the focus goes to the browser.
A: That's done by your browser. For changing it, open about:config in your browser and set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true.
Q: Liferea is buggy! It does not close when I click on the window
managers close button and the tray icon is activated.
A:
This is a pretty disputed topic. We see this as a useful feature, other
people don't. If you don't like the behaviour you can change it in the
preferences under "GUI". There you can enable the check box "Terminate
instead of minimizing to tray icon".
Q: I want cookies!
A:
Liferea supports cookies provided by a text file ~/.config/liferea/cookies.txt
which contains cookies in Netscape format. The easiest way is to copy
the file from your Mozilla profile after you created the cookies
with the browser.
Q: I don't like the HTML/CSS styles Liferea uses!
A: You can have your own stylesheet. Just edit ~/.config/liferea/liferea.css
During startup it will be loaded additionally to the default stylesheets so you can
modify some or all style definitions. The file contains comments describing the
different style so it should be easy to modify them.
Q: How do I see my LiveJournal friend's friends-only entries?
A: This is usually due to a bad feed which associated a
particular ID to multiple items. If you are experienced with syndication
formats please check the feed source code. If you find problems please
contact the author/webmaster of the feed. If not please submit a bug report including the URL of the problem
feed to the Liferea
bug tracker.
Note: If you experience this problem with a planet feed the reason
might be that the planet feed does not provide unique item ids
for one or all off its source feeds. If this is the case Liferea
has no chance to match identical items.
Q: Liferea crashes too much.
A: We hear this complaint a lot, but we rarely do not get information
on how it crashed. If you find a way to make Liferea crash, we would
love to know about it. Please send us a copy of the output of running
Liferea with the "--debug-all" flag, plus a backtrace if possible. To
create a backtrace, open up a terminal and type two commands: ulimit -c unlimited and then liferea. This causes Liferea to create a core dump
when it crashes. Then, run gdb liferea
core and type bt at the gdb
prompt. This will display the backtrace of the crash, which should be
sent along with the bug report.
Q: Why doesn't Liferea have feature X?
A: If you miss a feature in Liferea please consider contributing
code to implement the feature! Please also consider that the Liferea
project aims to provide a simple feed reader that might lack more
complex functionality.