diff --git a/utils/notifier/background.html b/utils/notifier/background.html
index 751456766..f67523bad 100644
--- a/utils/notifier/background.html
+++ b/utils/notifier/background.html
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 <script type="text/javascript">
 
 var last_updated = 0;
+var feeds_last_updated = 0;
 var prefs_last_updated = 0;
 
 function param_escape(arg) {
@@ -11,7 +12,24 @@ function param_escape(arg) {
 		return escape(arg);
 }
 
+function update_feeds() {
+
+	console.log("feeds update");
+
+	var requestUrl = localStorage["site_url"] + "/public.php?op=globalUpdateFeeds";
+
+	var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
+
+	xhr.open("POST", requestUrl, true);
+	xhr.send();
+
+	var d = new Date();
+	localStorage["last_feeds_updated"] = d.getTime();
+}
+
 function update() {
+	console.log("update");
+
 	var d = new Date();
 	var login = localStorage["login"];
 	var single_user = localStorage["single_user"];
@@ -23,7 +41,6 @@ function update() {
 
 	var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
 
-
 	xhr.open("POST", requestUrl, true);
 	xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
 	xhr.send(params);
@@ -109,6 +126,7 @@ function timeout() {
 
 	var update_interval;
 	var prefs_updated;
+	var feeds_update_interval = 30 * 60 * 1000;
 
 	if (localStorage["update_interval"])
 		update_interval = localStorage["update_interval"] * 60 * 1000;
@@ -126,14 +144,27 @@ function timeout() {
 			prefs_updated != prefs_last_updated) {
 
 		last_updated = d.getTime();
-		prefs_last_updated = prefs_updated;
 		try {
 			update();
 		} catch (e) {
-			//
+			console.warn(e);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (localStorage['update_feeds'] == 1 && (d.getTime() > feeds_last_updated + feeds_update_interval || prefs_updated != prefs_last_updated)) {
+
+		feeds_last_updated = d.getTime();
+	
+		try {
+			update_feeds();
+		} catch (e) {
+			console.warn(e);
 		}
+
 	}
 
+	prefs_last_updated = prefs_updated;
+
 	window.setTimeout("timeout()", 1000);
 }
 
diff --git a/utils/notifier/manifest.json b/utils/notifier/manifest.json
index 8294469ee..e76b07637 100644
--- a/utils/notifier/manifest.json
+++ b/utils/notifier/manifest.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "Tiny Tiny RSS Notifier",
   "background_page": "background.html",
-  "version": "0.4.2",
+  "version": "0.5",
   "description": "This extension displays the number of unread articles in your Tiny Tiny RSS installation",
   "options_page": "options.html",
   "icons": { "48": "images/icon.png", "128": "images/icon.png" },
diff --git a/utils/notifier/options.html b/utils/notifier/options.html
index af7de0244..25c26b5df 100644
--- a/utils/notifier/options.html
+++ b/utils/notifier/options.html
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ function save() {
 	localStorage['show_badge'] = (f.show_badge.checked) ? "1" : "0";
 	localStorage['show_fresh'] = (f.show_fresh.checked) ? "1" : "0";
 	localStorage['single_user'] = (f.single_user.checked) ? "1" : "0";
+	localStorage['update_feeds'] = (f.update_feeds.checked) ? "1" : "0";
 
 	var d = new Date();
 
@@ -89,6 +90,11 @@ function init() {
 	else
 		f.single_user.checked = false;
 
+	if (localStorage['update_feeds'])
+		f.update_feeds.checked = localStorage['update_feeds'] == "1";
+	else
+		f.update_feeds.checked = false;
+
 	single_user_toggle();
 
 	var last_updated = $('last_updated');
@@ -97,8 +103,13 @@ function init() {
 
 	d.setTime(localStorage["last_updated"]);
 
-
 	last_updated.innerHTML = d;	
+
+	var feeds_last_updated = $('feeds-last-updated');
+
+	d.setTime(localStorage["last_feeds_updated"]);
+
+	feeds_last_updated.innerHTML = d;
 }
 </script>
 
@@ -177,10 +188,16 @@ fieldset span.note {
 			<span class="note">(requires Tiny Tiny RSS 1.4.1 or trunk)</span>
 		</fieldset>
 
+		<fieldset>
+			<label>Periodically try to update tt-rss feeds:</label>
+			<input name="update_feeds" type="checkbox"  value="1"/>
+			<span class="note">Please use this as a last resort method only in case you can't update your feeds <a target="_blank" href="http://tt-rss.org/wiki/UpdatingFeeds">in any other way</a>. Last updated: <span id='feeds-last-updated'>N/A</span></span>
+		</fieldset>
+
 		<input type="submit" value="Save"/>
 	</form>
 
-	<p>Copyright &copy; 2010 
+	<p>Copyright &copy; 2010-2012
 		<a target="_blank" href="http://tt-rss.org">Andrew Dolgov</a>. 
 		Licensed under GNU GPL version 2.</p>