BTW I am currently using a firefox extension called Brief http://brief.mozdev.org/ which is, IMHO, by far and away, the best reader, so far, for firefox.
Very much news and technology: BBC, software updates, PC news.
Tried Opera and about a dozen dedicated progs., also Thunderbird (great potential, ■■■■ though) and setteled on SharpReader. It’s simple, I can use it as /I/ want to and it recognises Opera for when I want a proper browser.
Did try one just because of its name: RSS Bandit :o
Opera does have this option, but since I didn’t know how to use and wasn’t interested, I disabled it. I prefer the old fashion method of manually updating, and that isn’t just with software