Make feed timeout a preference

[akawaguc]

I entered an issue on
https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25519
but this seems to be dealt with by none.
So I re-enter the same issue here.

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First of all, thank you so much for your providing great software, Brief.

Everyday I check some web sites that provide RSS URLs. Some of the web sites often take much time to return the responses as RSS.

Because of this, it seems that Brief cannot wait for the responses and it shows
an error icon in the folder pane.

So is it possible to add a timeout setting for this issue?

[ancestorak]

If you don't mind getting your hand dirty, you can edit the timeout right now. Go to <Firefox profile>/extensions and inside the package brief@mozdev.org.xpi (it's just a zip package with a different extension) edit the file modules/FeedUpdateService.jsm. Near the top of that file there's a constant FEED_FETCHER_TIMEOUT whose value is in milliseconds.

It might be worth changing the constant into a preference in about:config, though.

[akawaguc]

@ancestorak Sorry for late reply but thank you for your valuable comment. The workaround you mentioned worked fine.