BlogRovR is the perfect companion for blog reading. Tell Rovr which blogs you like. From then on, as you browse, Rovr fetches from them stories that link to the what you're browsing and shows them to you right on the page.

BlogRovR also shows you suggested stories from blogs you may want to know about picked just for you.

You probably know lots of blogs which are worth reading, but not end-to-end, only when they talk about something you're really interested in. Or you may have read something in a blog a long time ago. With Rovr, when you surf to somewhere those blogs have talked about, you'll immediately be able to read what they said, right there.

Rovr complements your normal blog reading, fetching posts about anything on the web you're reading while you read it. You'll still read blogs on the web or in your favorite blog reading software.

Rovr fetches stories from the blogs you subscribe to. You can unsubscribe from a blog at the touch of a button, if you decide later that you're not interested in what some blogger has to say after all. There's no SPAM!

Yes, you need to register so that Rovr knows what blogs to fetch from, and you need to download Rovr into your browser, to get blog post summaries while you browse. Don't worry. Rovr is 100% free of malware and Spyware, and super-simple to uninstall.

It's a trick question. Rovr is free.

First, you need to register with your email address and a password. The email is just for you to use to login. If you later forget your password, that's where we'll send you a new one.

Once you're signed into Rovr, download the Rovr extension from the home page. Before Rovr will start fetching stories for you, you'll need to restart your browser.

Now tell Rovr the blogs you like. You can:

• Add individual blog url's at blogrovr.com
• Add a list of blogs from an OPML file (blog readers export these).
• Add blogs from some of our Pre-packaged bundles.

Our feed bundles contain interesting and popular blogs we've grouped together so you can started quickly. Don't worry about subscribing to thing you don't care about, as you can unsubscribe easily right from the tray as you browse if you find you're not interested in what any blog has to say.

Click here to add bundles.

No. BlogRovR doesn't touch your home page(s). If you download BlogRovR but haven't registered RovR will remind you to register by adding a tab with its homepage to whatever tabs open when you restart your browser.

Once you've registered or signed into BlogRovr for the first time on a given machine, BlogRovR no longer open the extra tab.

This only happens before you register the first time! It's a reminder for you to finish registration, easy and safe, so you can use RovR. After you complete registration, your browser startup will be unaffected by RovR.

Once you've registered and downloaded the BlogRovR plugin for your browser, you just tell Rovr the blogs you like on your blogrovr.com homepage, then go about your normal browsing. As you surf, Rovr's tray slides and shows you summaries of blog posts which mention pages you're browsing.

You can block either one or all of the visible post summaries in BlogRovR's tray; to stop them from showing up in the tray.

To block all posts in the tray, click on the button in the tray frame.

To block a single post, move your mouse over the post summary on Rovr's tray.Click the block post button .The unsubscribe button next to it unsubscribes you from the blog totally.

Once you've blocked some posts on a page, the blocked notes tray button appears on the top of the tray. You can click that to unblock selected blocked posts.

When you browse to a new page for which Rovr finds stories for you, the tray slides in for a moment. You can tell Rovr to show you the tray only for stories newer than a day or a week or a month from the menu in the Rovr toolbar.

When previewing posts, when you navigate to a page with blog posts about it, the tray slides into the browser briefly and then slides back out after a bit. You can make the tray stay open wherever there are notes using the handle's stayopen symbol or set it back to "preview" . If there are no posts about a page, the tray and handle won't appear at all, unless you have previously blocked notes. Then the handle appears showing 0, so you can open the tray to see the blocked notes if you like.

You can make the tray slide and and out manually at any time using the and buttons.

You can change the tray's size so it shows you more or less information. At its smallest, the tray shows you just the icon for the blog which talks about the page you're on, and the date of post.

Twitter about any page you're looking at by selecting Twitter this from the RovR toolbar dropdown menu.

BlogrRovr will prompt your for a comment, and put the url in for you. If it needs to, RovR will ask you supply your twitter username and password.

Sometimes you don't even want your best friend browsing with you. You can put BlogRovR to sleep by clicking on the Rovr toolbar button. The button turns gray and the tray dissapears. Another click starts Rovr fetching again.

For Rovr to fetch posts from the blogs you like, you need to tell Rovr which blogs you're interested in. That's Rovr's notion of what you're subscribed to.You probably want to export your favorite blogs from your blog reader into an OPML file, and Import that into Rovr. There's a button for the import on the BlogRovR's homepage. Your feed reader's website will tell you how to export the list of blogs you're subscribed to there.

You can add the url of any blog and Click Add, and Rovr will subscribe you to it. If you're the first to subscribe to that feed in BlogRovR, it may take a couple of hours before Rovr can deliver stories from it to you.

If you're reading some website which is a blog, and has an associated RSS or Atom feed, you can use the menu item on Rovr's toolbar to subscribe to it without leaving the page.

If you like to read lots of blogs, adding them Rovr one by one is a lot of work. You can subscribe to a bunch of blogs at once by importing an OPML file at blogrovr.com.

All feed readers can export your subscriptions as OPML files, and you'll find instructions on their websites.

There are lots of lists of favorite blogs available on the web.

Remove a blog from your blogrovr homepage by clicking on the big red X which appears when your mouse hovers over a blog's name. The blog will become gray, and if you made a mistake, you can get it back by clicking on the green +that appears instead of the X. Once you refresh the page or leave your blogrovr homepage, the blog will no longer be listed.

You can also remove any blog from a post summary in the tray, by clicking on the crossed-out newspaper icon (), or from any open note's dropdown menu.

Google's blog reader has a list of instructions here.

Click extras at the bottom of the any blogrovr.com page, then click the big yellow Export button.

You can create a button called a chiclet to subcribe readers to your blog in RovR and put it in your blog. This will let subscribers see your blog posts wherever they surf that you've blogged about!

Create a chiclet by clicking on the at the very bottom of your BlogRovR homepage.

You can then choose from different looks for the chiclet and specify your blog feed's url. You'll then see the code you can cut and paste into your blog template to add the chiclet.

There are a few reasons why you may not see a post at a page you're linking to.

• It takes RovR a few hours to read a new feed.
• Your blog feed may not be a full feed. There isn't enough information in partial feeds for RovR to find relevance.
• The link or the page being viewed may have extraneous html parameters. RovR doesn't always know how to strip these parameters, which look like "?param=value" after the normal URL.
• The page you're referencing may have been redirected. Check the URL being referred to in the post and the URL which shows up in the page you're referring to. RovR doesn't always know how to follow redirects. For example, "www.meebo.com" almost never works, as it gets changed into things like "www25.meebo.com" by meebo.
• The post may be older than we keep. How long we keep blog posts varies with a number of things, but if your post is older than 4 months, it may have aged out of our index.

For many blogs, BlogRovR is the largest source of feed-based subscribers, or second only to Google Reader.

The chiclet will allow your users to subscribe to your blog in their BlogRovR account; which means they'll get shown your post summary wherever on the web you've written about. If your blog becomes very "popular and influential" it will start to show up in the tray whenever you write about something someone else popular and influential writes about, without your having linked to them directly.

As of version 1.1.440, BlogRovR works together with Google Reader. If you're reading a post in Google Reader from a blog, BlogRovR will show you the same stories it would if you were reading the post in a web page on the blog.

OPML files are used by feed readers to store the lists of blogs. All feed readers can export your subscriptions as OPML files and you'll find instructions on how to do it on their websites.

Google also has information on how to export OPML files from common feed readers here.

Once you've exported your blogs to an OPML file on your computer, you can import it into BlogRovR from your blogrovr homepage and Rovr will fetch posts from your blogs about whenever you're browsing.

BlogRovR works in Firefox 2 and newer. IE6 and IE7 are on the way.

Sorry, we don't yet run in any others.

In Firefox, go to the Tools>Add-ons menu at the top, select BlogRovR, then press the Uninstall button.

Finish the uninstall by restarting your browser.

All you need to do is uninstall RovR, as described below. It's just like uninstalling any other Firefox Add-on.

We remember your username, password, and blog list in case you want to use RovR again in the future.

Click the Sign In button on the BlogRovR homepage if you're not signed in, and click the link which says then click link which says Forgot your password...

If you are signed in, click here to change your password.

Click extras at the bottom of the any blogrovr.com page and change your password there.

We have seen this, but don't yet know how to fix it. Sometimes roboform doesn't recognize a page it ought to when RovR is turned on. The workaround is to turn off BlogRovR temporarily, by pressing the dog toolbar button. Roboform will then let you log into or fill the webpage. Turn RovR back on clicking on the dog toolbar button again.

First, make sure you're subscribed to the blog in BlogRovR. If you are, and there's a link from a post in that blog to the page you're viewing, check for more potential issues under the question I subscribed to my blog in BlogRovR, but don't see my post where I should in the Promoting Your Blog FAQ Section above.

First, we apologize. Second, make sure that you were logged into BlogRovR if you left feedback, or that there was a valid email address on your mail. We need to be able to reach you back!

We make it a point of personally responding to EVERY email or feedback item sent to us. We're here to improve your browsing experience and if something is wrong, hard, or frustrating, we're commited to help and fix it.