I do agree that FeedDemon’s security is, IMHO, the best of the Windows based desktop feed readers. My concern is that the weakest link is in using the Microsoft-supplied HTML renderer. Hopefully this is and will remain a non-issue. Of course, “hoping” isn’t a valid means for mitigating security risk.

When I do come up with a newspaper style I’m happy with, I will certainly blog about it and unless FeedDemon’s license prohibits it, post the .fdxml2 file for others to try.

At this point, my biggest “issue” is the reproducible crash bug that I encountered. Other than that, I’ve managed to catch up on all my unread items (!) inside of a few hours–something that I haven’t managed to do in Google Reader for weeks (without simply marking everything as read, of course). So far, so great!

I share your concerns about security, which is why I’ve spent considerable time making FeedDemon as secure as possible (this post in my blog provides some examples of the security measures I’ve implemented). I’m obviously biased, but I think you’ll be hard-pressed to find another RSS reader that’s as secure as FeedDemon.

You’re right that the newspaper tooltips need to include shortcuts – I’m kind of surprised I never noticed that before. I’ve added this to our bugtracker, so it’ll be fixed in a future release.

If you end up creating your own styles, I hope you’ll blog about them – I’m sure other FeedDemon users (myself included) would love to see them.

Thanks again!