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Sage is a nice Firefox extension for reading RSS and Atom feeds. I primarily use Bloglines as my newsreader, but I find Sage is more useful for high-volume feeds like Waxy links or Google News feeds, since I can quickly glance over the headlines and look for something interesting, rather than scroll through each post as Bloglines seems to require. When activated, Sage sits as a sidebar and initially loads a page in the main browser window listing each of the items.
Sage also allows you to customize the stylesheet it uses to render the posts. I like the two-column layout in the default feed, but I decided to create my own Sage stylesheet, which I’ve uploaded here. You’ll notice that its pallette is very similar to the one I use on this blog; it has lots of earth tones. I’ve used Futura as the primary font, which isn’t particularly Web-safe, but I’ve made this for myself, so I thought I would go crazy with the type.
To use the stylesheet, download it to your machine and put it in a folder that makes sense to you. I put it in my Firefox user profile folder. Then open the preferences for Sage, check “use custom stylesheet,” and browse for the appropriate file. From now on, Sage pages should render granola-style. You can also find more stylesheets on the Sage wiki.
