Losing the Google reader was a big deal for me, and I managed to write a Chrome extension that re-used most of Google Reader&#x27;s UI and hijacked browser&#x27;s XHR to redirect requests to browser background page.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;local-rss-reader&#x2F;cemddjmmnfebpkpkonmbkdmakilpkcid?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;local-rss-reader&#x2F;c...</a><p>The code is not pretty, if I wrote this extension today, the code would be much more readable and robust.<p>It worked out okay, but I moved to tiny-tiny RSS a few years ago, so this little project of mine is mostly abandoned.