Can't believe this is the third entry I post today...Sorry for the awkwardly-worded title. Sigh.

Five weeks ago I switched to Google reader because of the mishap of Bloglines. So far so good. I was wondering why Google toolbar does not include Google reader as a built-in subscription reader. It has Google personalized home instead. But I'm not a huge fan of personalized homepage.

I was about to email Google to ask for this feature when I found a fresh [ YAH, very fresh. Released today! ] Greasemonkey script which enables us to subscribe with Google reader in Google toolbar. I just tried it out and it worked very well.

With the new Google Toolbar for firefox, they included a way of subscribing to feeds from a link in the toolbar to a number of services. They did not however, include the Google Reader in that list. This script will allow you to subscribe to a feed using the toolbar by selecting “Google Home” as the service you use.

Google Toolbar add to Reader OR ig by Mark Husson. His other Greasemonkey scripts can be found here.

You need Greasemonkey for Firefox to run the script, which can be downloaded from Firefox add-ons. Having installed the add-on and restarted your FF, you then navigate to the script page to click on "Install this Script" link.

You can click the orange "Subscribe button" on Google toolbar and choose the feed you like. You will be directed to a web page that asks you "add to Google homepage" or "add to Google reader." Then you get it!