NewsFox

Feeds/Articles tab

Date Style: Use the drop-down list to select how you want the date of the article to be displayed. The available styles are the ISO 8601 date format with no seconds, the short date format with the time format set on your system, but without seconds, and the long date format with the time format set on your system.

Change article date to present time if: Select the cases when you want this to happen.
No Date when there is no date information
Invalid Date when the date is invalid
Future Date when the date is in the future
Articles with no or invalid dates are considered to be from 1969.

Refresh all feeds on startup Select this if you want NewsFox to refresh all feeds on startup. Remember that feeds can be individually selected not to be included.

Notify when new article(s) posted Select this if you want NewsFox to display a sliding alert in the lower right corner of your screen when new articles arrive.

Article tooltips Select this if you want NewsFox to display a tooltip window with the beginning of the article when hovering over the right half of the title and further information (tags, category, date, author) when hovering over other columns. If your title is too long to be displayed in its column, then hovering over its left half shows the whole title.

Copy article body to clipboard Select this if you want NewsFox to copy the body of the article to the clipboard whenever an article is selected. It is the HTML code which is copied, so when you compose a message in HTML format and paste the clipboard, you get the article inserted with all its formatting.

Select new feed when added Select this if you want NewsFox to automatically select the feed that you have just added.

Feed refresh timeout (seconds) Enter the number of seconds to wait for a response from a feed server. The default value is 60. It is quite probable that a lower value is also good.

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Global tab

Display Style: Use the drop-down list to select Text or Web Page.
Delete old articles Select this if you want NewsFox to automatically delete old articles. Available options are: yes, keep unread / yes, delete unread / no.
If you choose either of the two yes options, you can define
Set as old as after X days or not in feed.
Marked updated articles as unread Select this if you want NewsFox to mark updated articles as unread to draw your attention to the update.
Auto-refresh: X minute(s) Enter the number of minutes between autorefreshes.

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Sorting tab
Use the drop-down list to choose how titles should be sorted by default. In another drop-down list next to it, you can choose whether the sorting should follow an ascending or descending order. You can define four rules. You can read a description of the available values in the description of the Title pane.

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General tab

Newsfox directory
You can choose the location of the NewsFox directory. After choosing a new directory, the following options appear:

Directory contents:
copy Select this if you want to copy the data to a new location and leave it in the former directory, too.
move Select this if you want to copy the data to a new location and delete it from the former directory.
no action Select this if you do not want to use any of the data collected so far or you want to go back to a former directory with old content.

Ask for conformation when deleting groups or feeds Select this if you wish to see a confirm dialog before deleting a groups or a feed.

Ask for confirmation when deleting articles Select this if you wish to see a confirm dialog before deleting one or more articles.

Horizontal panes (requires restart) Select this if if you want all the three panes to be arranged horizontally. This layout is the equivalent of Vertical View in Thunderbird.

Favicons Select this if you want NewsFox to display favicons. The default is the same as set in the browser's preferences.

Enable interest filter Select this to enable the Bayesian filter which indicates your probable interest in an article.

Autosubscribe icon in status bar Select this to enable the Status bar button, which can be used to start NewsFox and to autosubscribe to feeds.

Text: Choose whether you want the information displayed next to the autosubscribe icon in the status bar to be
# new the number of new messages in the current refresh (default)
# unread the number of unread messages
# none no information

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Shortcuts tab
Shortcut keys Use the drop-down list to select a layout for customizable shortcuts: none, standard or alternate. You can select a row and type a key combination to set a keystroke. In this case the label changes to custom and you can always return to any of the original layouts. There are also fixed shortcuts which cannot be changed.

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Keywords tab
Articles with keywords in the article body have green text in the article pane, and the keywords are highlighted in green in the view-pane. Keywords are only matched in article bodies. They are case insensitive. They can contain spaces.

about:config

Keywords can be added in newsfox.keywordX where X=1,2,3,.... More than 5 keywords can be added.
Technically, rows in the article tree with keywordX have properties keywordX and keyword.
The matching of keywords: [articlebody.toLowerCase().indexOf(keyword) > -1] is a match.

styling:

The default styling in newsfox.css is

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(keyword)
{ color: #10a010; }
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(keyword,focus,selected)
{ color: white; }

Keywords in the view-pane are all of class keyword and the default styling in textview.css is

.keyword
{ color: green; font-weight: bold; }

So, it is possible to change the article-pane styling to be different for each keyword, but all keywords are treated the same in the view-pane.