Stopping FireFox from auto-loading RSS?
I was working on a site recently and we added an RSS link to the HTML header. Example:
<link href="/feed.rss" title="RSS Feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" />
The problem is that we had minor performance issues, and when we looked at it, we found that FireFox 3 was loading the RSS feed on every page load. We checked and re-checked this to confirm it was happening and tried to enable / disable various extensions (firebug, developer, etc.) and it was still happening. We also tried it on XP vs Vista vs OSX and it happened on all of them.
Has anyone seen this before, and if so, do you know how to stop it? You just don't have to load the rss feed on every page load like it is now.
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As far as I know, this cannot be done, simply because RSS is intended to be an alternative way of aggregating information on a site. Do you need an RSS feed for every page on your site? The answer is probably not.
Depending on the type of site, you can create an RSS feed for a page if:
- This is the first page and you want a general feed for the site itself (new articles)
- The page changes frequently, i.e. on an article page that has custom comments
- Subcategories within the site (for example, on the first page, but limited to articles in this subcategory)
You can try using an item <ttl>
in your feed to specify how long the feed can be cached before updating.
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