Please update Liferea to latest stable version (1.4.18 currently) which fixes at least one annoying bug.
liferea-1.4.18-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
liferea-1.4.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update liferea'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7225
liferea-1.4.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.