How to trim a Feedburner feed?

December 5, 2009 8:41 AM

Within the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that a lot of extra info is being displayed in the Firefox address bar when clicking through from my feed reader. How do I stop this from happening?

I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 and Sage-Too 2.0.0. Up until a couple of weeks ago, when clicking through from Icanhascheezeburger's feed, it would show

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/12/05/funny-pictures-smarter-than-the-terrier/

in the address bar, but now it shows

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/12/05/funny-pictures-smarter-than-the-terrier/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICanHasCheezburger+%28I+CAN+HAS+CHEEZBURGER%3F%29

I think I may have upgraded Firefox in the past couple of weeks, but Sage-Too has been installed since August. I'm also pretty sure that this is only happening on Feedburner feeds.

How do I get it to stop adding the extra bit on the end and make it display like it did previously? I don't want to change my feed reader if at all possible.

posted by Solomon to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Looks like they're using this feature, so it's done on purpose on the server side.
posted by effbot at 9:10 AM on December 5, 2009

I agree with effbot. It's not firefox, it's a feedburner feature.
posted by unixrat at 9:47 AM on December 5, 2009

Response by poster: Is there any way to deal with it, client side?
posted by Solomon at 10:55 AM on December 5, 2009

You could filter the feed that feedburner is generating to remove the fields. Pipes might be able to do this.
posted by Rhomboid at 10:58 AM on December 5, 2009