You can now enable RSS support in Chrome + Tips and Tricks

They are back RSS and Chrome and unlike when we echoed this function a few months ago, its activation is now available to all users of the Google browser, which in practice is almost everyone because, mind you, we are not talking about PC, but about mobile . From Android, specifically.

Thus, it does not matter that you do not use Chrome on your Android phone, because surely you have it installed somewhere. Another thing is that you’re interested in using RSS in Chrome, and that’s because if you use another browser it doesn’t make much sense: get better with an RSS reader for mobile phones, there are some very good ones, and you don’t need anything else.

Now, if you use Chrome on Android and you are also interested in using RSS in Chrome, then pay attention to what follows. And although I refer to the topic as RSS in Chrome, because I hesitate to call them an RSS reader in Chrome, it does have a bit of that, obviously. However, this is actually from Google Discover on Android.

As we explained to you at the time, the return of RSS in Chrome consists of being able to add specific sites to Google Discover… or rather, to a new section of Google Discover called “Following”; only on Android, it bears repeating. The process is very simple:

1. Open the browser menu when you are on a site you like, for example this one, and at the bottom you will see an option that is not lost: the name of the site accompanied by the «+ Follow«.
2. Check the “Following” section on the Chrome new tab page. Additionally, you can manage the sites you follow from the Google Discover options on Android.

Still don’t see that option to follow sites by RSS in Chrome? That’s because it’s starting to spread now among users of the stable version of the browser, according to has released the director of engineering for Chrome and it will take a while to reach the many millions of Chrome users on Android around the world.

If you don’t want to wait, you can already activate RSS support in Chrtome through the hidden options of the browser: go to: «chrome://flags/#web-feed» (without the quotes) and enable (Enabled) the function. You can rest easy, because it does not pose any risk to the stability of Chrome and you can disable them (Disabled) anytime.

No one hit RSS as hard as Google when it shut down Reader, so the reintegration of RSS into Chrome, albeit on the sly, is a noteworthy development. That said, there are dedicated apps that are worth much more, even as a service: Feedly or Inoreader are two good examples of this, so we encourage you to take a look at them.