

RSS Guard may now share cookies and user-agent with bundled WebEngine, which allows users to access cookie-protected resources in RSS Guard.Gmail email syncing performance improved significantly.Feeds can be turned off to skip them during the feed downloading process.If date and time can't be retrieved for a specific feed, RSS Guard will use the current date and time to make sure the sorting of articles is consistent.Date and time formats support new customization options, including displaying relative dates for recent items.The Windows taskbar icon displays the progress of downloading feeds now.There are other new features in the application. It may be a good idea to test the functionality to see if performance is impacted negatively. The option is found under Tools > Preferences > Feed & Articles > Articles list > Enable multilinie items.Įnabling the option may decrease the performance of article lists with a large number of articles according to the developer. Another change introduces support for displaying article titles with multiline layout.

Manual sorting is not the only new feature that the developer introduced in the latest versions of the application. Drag & drop sorting does not appear to be supported in this initial release.Īn option to drag & drop feed items to a new position would certainly improve the ability to sort items manually. You may move feeds to the top or bottom, or up or down one place. All it takes then is to right-click on a feed and select one of the move options to move it. Starting in RSS Guard 4.2.0, users may select Feeds > Sort alphabetically to unlock the manual sorting option. While it is possible to move a feed item to another folder using drag & drop, it was not possible up until now to rearrange the listing of individual folders. Feed lists are sorted alphabetically per folder by default. One of the main improvements in RSS Guard 4.2.0 is manual feed list sorting. The last version that has been released at the time of writing is RSS Guard 4.2.1 it is used in this article. The two main releases, RSS Guard 4.1.0 and 4.2.0, added several new features and improvements to RSS Guard. Several updates were released since January. Since my review of RSS Guard in January 2022, I have slowly but steadily moved away from QuiteRSS as my go-to application for feed reading and started to use RSS Guard more and more.
