Google Nixes Chrome RSS Extension Dylan Duarte March 15, 2013 It seems like the entire Internet has been melting down after the news that Google is shutting down the much-loved Google Reader service. We’re trying to help people cope the best we can, offering users a MEGATech Guide to Google Reader Alternatives, but everyone is still understandably distraught over Google’s war against Rich Site Summary… or Really Simple Syndication. Or simply RSS. And yes, it is a war. Google isn’t stopping at Google Reader. Google has also killed off the Chrome browser extension for subscribing to feeds. The extension placed a little RSS icon in the browser bar when you visited a site with a feed, but that extension has stopped working for those that have it installed and has up and vanished from the Google Chrome Web Store. It’s certainly a frustrating move, as the extension wasn’t necessarily linked to Google Reader; you could use it to add feeds to a variety of other readers. Still, what’s done is done and the extension has gone the way of the dodo, as will Google Reader later this year. via Tech Crunch Share This With The World!
