<![CDATA[Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader.]]>I need to debug an RSS feed by looking at it's final generated source. Impossible thanks to opera's newsfeed handler hijacking it. A flag to disable built-in news handling or a simple view source button on the news preview page would save from the need to open another browser.

Found this flag: chrome://flags/?search=news#news-feeds-page-action

Unfortunately it doesn't stop feed urls from being handled by the news reader.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/21063/option-to-stop-opera-from-parsing-rss-xml-urls-in-feed-readerRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 17:44:31 GMTFri, 26 May 2017 10:50:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Mon, 29 May 2017 19:08:40 GMT]]>Block the URLs with ADBlock or any other¿?
Could be possible¿?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122313https://forums.opera.com/post/122313Mon, 29 May 2017 19:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Mon, 29 May 2017 19:02:04 GMT]]>Nope, they won't. :awww:
This problem has not been resolved since 2016

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122312https://forums.opera.com/post/122312Mon, 29 May 2017 19:02:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Sun, 28 May 2017 09:00:36 GMT]]>Interesting workaround and thanks for going out of your way to confirm this.
My alternative solution so far is to paste it into Edge as it formats and color-codes the xml.
Let's hope the devs fix the detection flags in the future.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122164https://forums.opera.com/post/122164Sun, 28 May 2017 09:00:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Sun, 28 May 2017 06:41:44 GMT]]>I see now. I've only added them manually before and didn't know Opera had detection that would load Personal News. I was trying the first two below and they didn't load personal news. But, I found one (the last one) that does.

Content-Type: application/xml
https://www.hardocp.com/RSS/all_hardocp.xml

Content-Type: text/xml
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index

Content-Type: text/html
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

So, I can indeed confirm that this is a problem. I also can confirm that the option to disable the feed action doesn't work, which I would assume is a bug if that's what the option is truly for.

As a workaround for now, you can paste feed links into https://validator.w3.org/feed/. That'll show the source (below the validation results).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122158https://forums.opera.com/post/122158Sun, 28 May 2017 06:41:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Sat, 27 May 2017 21:34:56 GMT]]>Okay. My Opera (developer channel) isn't behaving like that (as in, not automatically opening personal news), but I'll reset my profile and check things out.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122134https://forums.opera.com/post/122134Sat, 27 May 2017 21:34:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Sat, 27 May 2017 15:36:32 GMT]]>When you navigate to a feed xml it opens personal news. No view source or anything as it's part of the browser ui and not a page.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122097https://forums.opera.com/post/122097Sat, 27 May 2017 15:36:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Option to stop Opera from parsing RSS XML urls in feed reader. on Sat, 27 May 2017 06:40:43 GMT]]>You can't go to the feed url in a tab and right-click on the page and choose "view source"? Even for pages that might get a preview, view source still works it seems.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122053https://forums.opera.com/post/122053Sat, 27 May 2017 06:40:43 GMT