

The Advanced tab allows you to set more advanced options. If you are not sure about their effect, you can just leave the default ones.

Akregator currently only uses the Metakit database but for KDE 4, Akregator will offer other database backends.
Default is 0 seconds, which means that as soon as you click on an article it is marked as read. You can choose to mark any article as read after a specified number of seconds.
This will clear the search bar when you change feed.