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copied!<p>Unfortunately, the short answers to your questions are "No" and "Sort of" because of a lack of browser support for udpating the list of feeds that are modified/added/removed in IE and Firefox.</p> <p>First, in order to add elements to the document <code>HEAD</code> in IE (remember this applies to CSS as well), you must be sure to specify the first item in the array that is returned by jQuery's element selector (note the use of the <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/eq" rel="nofollow noreferrer">eq(index)</a> selector):</p> <pre><code>$('head:eq(0)').append('<link id="rssfeed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://path.com/feed" title="Path (RSS)">'); </code></pre> <p>Note: I found including the <code>TITLE</code> attribute made it easier to see the changes.</p> <p>While you can change the <code>HREF</code> attribute of the <code>LINK</code> in both IE and Firefox (through the DOM), <em>neither</em> will update the RSS icon menu. <em>However</em>, you can <strong>add</strong> <code>LINK</code> elements and they will be recognized by the RSS icon menu but the old entries will remain because Firefox only builds that menu when <code>LINK</code>s are <em>added</em>.</p> <p>See the following links for more information:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/54377/Firefox-and-Javascript-issue" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ask MetaFilter - Firefox and Javascript issue</a></li> <li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380639" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Firefox Bug 380639: dynamic removal of feeds/ elements (DOMLinkRemoved) don't cause updates to the feed discovery menu</a></li> <li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396056" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Firefox Bug 396056: DOM changes to existing elements don't trigger RSS autodiscovery menu updates</a></li> </ul>

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