Mine have.  About half my enormous RSS list in Firefox* just randomly stopped working last week.

Turns out that a typical customer-service masterstroke by Google meant that feedburner.com – which they acquire a couple of years ago – disappeared sometime recently, and thus everything broke.  I wondered if it was just me being thick, but then I noticed that some of the actual blogs are still giving out the knackered URLs, so they probably haven’t noticed either.  There don’t seem to be any redirects, so any Feedburner feeds I had were now completely broken.

Anyway, here’s how to fix it:

1.  Find any of your RSS feeds that have feeds.feedburner.com in them.

2. Replace this with feedproxy.google.com

3. Refresh.

4. Relax.  Make tea.

* Sage-too is excellent, though turn off “Render Feeds in Content Area”, which isn’t.

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