How to Subscribe to and Read RSS Feeds with Internet Explorer

Last Updated: May 6, 2021

If you like to keep up to date with your RSS feeds, but are not where you have an RSS reader, you can still do it. Here you can do it with Internet Explorer.

Steps

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Open Internet Explorer.
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Ensure that you've selected to view the Command toolbar. The Command toolbar will display a button on Internet 7, 8, and 9 and any upcoming versions for any RSS feed that is detected on a webpage.
- Right click any place in the open portion near the tabs area of your browser.
- Click "Command bar", if you notice the item not having a checkmark to left of the item name.
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3
Browse through your web pages you visit and commonly look for the orange new light button to become visible.
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Click the drop-down button that is visible now, to select this option.
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Select the RSS feed's name, the browser saw.
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Look for the top orange bar at the top of the white portion of the webpage. This is the bar that will give you the option to save your feed for later viewing.
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Click "Subscribe to this feed" button. It will then ask you to confirm your subscription activity.
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Click the "Subscribe" button.
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Wait a few moments for the new orange bar (confirming a successful addition to the "Common Feeds" list.

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Warnings

Not all web pages have RSS feeds. Internet Explorer will detect feeds that are RSS, Atom as well as many other forms, as they become more-widely known.

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There's also another type of button that will display on the command bar that is green that will replace the orange icon at times. This green button isn't the same button for detecting RSS feeds. It is called the web-slice button, but it is truthfully rarely seen. It rolled out with Internet Explorer 8, but it still happens on occasion.

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If you are running an uncommon browser older than Internet Explorer 7, you'll need to upgrade (for free) to one of the newer browsers. However, keep in mind that their newest browsers (Internet Explorer 10 and 11 are only available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10) and that Microsoft Edge no longer includes a feature to find RSS feeds when they occur. Internet Explorer 6 and below will not be able to detect these feeds and will not display these pages at all, causing the browser to crash.

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