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Firefox used to have an RSS icon in the address bar when a page referenced an RSS feed. This was an easy way to notify the user that a particular page supported RSS.

The icon was removed in Firefox 4, causing much annoyance among people who use RSS (c.f. http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/01/firefox-4-ditches-the-rss-b... )

Oh ok, that is definitely a change then, but it's a minor UI change of moving a button into a menu.

THe RSS button is still available. Just click Nightly -> Options -> Toolbar Layout and drag the RSS button onto the toolbar.

The key word here is "default."

If something makes no sense to 90% of users it probably shouldn't be a default, it should be an option.

There used to be an icon in the address bar letting you know the website has an RSS feed and that's been removed from Firefox.