The desktop version of Google Chrome browser will have a built-in RSS reader and the early test interface will be exposed.

CTOnews.com August 22 news, after Google Reader disappeared for many years, Google is working to bring back RSS reader in Chrome browser, has been launched in iOS and Android version of the "Follow" feature.

According to foreign media About Chromebooks found clues, ChromeOS 106 development version of the RSS reader appeared in some related code and early UI. Users can subscribe by opening the right-click menu and selecting the new "Follow Sites" option.

Users can then display the content of the following site in a "Feed" window, but that interface doesn't work right now.

Foreign media contacted Chrome engineer Adrienne Porter Felt, and the reply was "unable to specify," but the mobile version of Chrome is about to usher in more improvements about RSS readers, we can look forward to Chrome 106 version.

RSS (English full name: RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication), Chinese translation of simple information aggregation, also known as aggregated content, is a message source format specification, used to aggregate content updates from multiple websites and automatically notify website subscribers.

With RSS, website subscribers no longer need to manually check whether there is new content on the website, and RSS can integrate the updated content of multiple websites and present it in the form of a summary, which helps subscribers to quickly obtain important information and selectively click to view it.

CTOnews.com has learned that Microsoft Edge is also testing a built-in RSS reader, introducing native RSS functionality in the collection feature. Called Followable Web, users can open the collection and click "Following" in the top right corner to view subscribed RSS feeds.