Today, it looks like at least one other common request – auto-discovery of RSS feeds – is on the list of priorities for the Google Chrome team to address.
Documentation posted to the Chrome development site explains how it will work. In Chrome’s address/search bar, an RSS icon will appear. Clicking on it “will redirect the user to feed, nicely formatted for the browser.”
Like Firefox, you’ll then be given a pull-down menu listing feed readers you can use to the subscribe to – a list that Google notes is still to-be-determined. Internet Explorer offers similar functionality, though as Webware notes, it takes the very Microsoft-like approach of using itself as the feed reading software.
It looks like Google is doing RSS auto-discovery the right way, though, it’s hard to believe that Chrome is considered “out of beta” when it’s lacking such a standard feature. But as Chrome enthusiasts (including myself) noted on our previous post, it’s all about speed, and most Chrome users simply use a second browser for functions not yet supported by the Google browser.