diff --git a/toolkit/components/feeds/src/FeedProcessor.js b/toolkit/components/feeds/src/FeedProcessor.js
index 90b1e3dd5e7..8df8eec3712 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/feeds/src/FeedProcessor.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/feeds/src/FeedProcessor.js
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ Entry.prototype = {
               "atom03:summary", "atom:summary"],
     content: ["content:encoded","atom03:content","atom:content"],
     rights: ["atom03:rights","atom:rights"],
-    published: ["atom03:issued", "dcterms:issued", "atom:published"],
+    published: ["pubDate", "atom03:issued", "dcterms:issued", "atom:published"],
     updated: ["pubDate", "atom03:modified", "dc:date", "dcterms:modified",
               "atom:updated"]
   },
diff --git a/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rss2/item_pubDate.xml b/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rss2/item_pubDate.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7189ebb4ff2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rss2/item_pubDate.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!--
+
+Description: entry pubDate works 
+Expect:      feed.items.queryElementAt(0, Components.interfaces.nsIFeedEntry).published == 'Sat, 02 Sep 2003 00:00:01 GMT'
+
+-->
+<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
+<channel>
+<item>
+<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2003 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
+</item>
+</channel>
+</rss>
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