RSS Links widget not working in all browsers

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  tibookchatter · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 9:46 pm

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  My RSS Links widget is not working in all browsers.

  In Chrome RSS Posts and RSS Comments produce errors.

  In Firefox, both RSS links fine.

  In IE 9, RSS Posts works okay, but RSS Comments does not work. I get an error.

  When I first added the widget about 3-6 months ago, it worked fine in Chrome. Can you look into it?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:29 pm

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  RSS is just a stream of data designed to be interpreted by a feed reader. Some browsers do interpret the data, but not all.

  Please see this for more info: http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/#feed-errors

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  tibookchatter · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:31 pm

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  Thank you. I figured as much but it did work at one time. Just wondered why it stopped.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:40 pm

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  It would have never worked in Chrome, they still haven’t added anything to interpret feeds in the browser.

  As for IE on the comments feed, I’m not sure. It is possible that something changed in the browser or your local setup, but nothing has changed on this end.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:41 pm

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  One though that jumped into my mind as I posted that, you may have been using a Chrome extension for feed reading, like the Google Reader extension. That extension may have been disabled for some reason.

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  tibookchatter · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:43 pm

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  I think that is what happened because I just added the reader extension back and now it can interpret it. Well, at least I have some options for a user should they ask. No one has. I just thought to check it. Thanks so much for the help.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 4, 2013 at 11:43 pm

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  You’re welcome!