ForecastFox in Chrome

[Francisco Pataro]

I'm unable to change locations in the options.

Every time I search for a location, I get an error

[Coot Master]

i got  error too by  zip

i CAN  search by name   i contacted developer

try searching for something like  MILWAUKEE 

[Oleksandr Popov]

Please show me screenshot and your location text search

понедельник, 19 января 2026 г. в 03:03:54 UTC+1, Francisco Pataro:

[Tyler Fowle]

Regardless of zearching by ZIP or name, it will either show endless loading circle or "an error has occurred".

[Oleksandr Popov]

hm...

вторник, 20 января 2026 г. в 02:31:48 UTC+1, Tyler Fowle:

[Tyler Fowle]

For one, I'm surprised it produced a result for you because it still gives me the same two conditions as previously noted.

Also... 07008 is in New York, USA, so the result you received is wildly innaccurate. 🫨

[Oleksandr Popov]

please open options page

right-click mouse - developer tools (or press ctrl+shift+i )

select tab network

type search string for your place

after make screenshot and copy url

try this url open in your new tab

for example my url:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=07008&accept-language=en&limit=40&format=geocodejson&addressdetails=1&exclude_place_ids=&dedupe=1

вторник, 20 января 2026 г. в 19:22:17 UTC+1, Tyler Fowle:

[Tyler Fowle]

I suspect that this is what you're looking for, given that it returns a 503 error.

[Tyler Fowle]

Oops, I forgot to provide the URL. In this specific case:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=new+york&accept-language=en&limit=40&format=geocodejson&addressdetails=1&exclude_place_ids=&dedupe=1

Additionally, going back again to copy this URL produced a 403 error instead.

[Tyler Fowle]

And this is what is produced when I navigate to the URL.

[Oleksandr Popov]

The URL you provided opens without any problems for me.
It seems that there may be some issue with your internet provider  :(

среда, 21 января 2026 г. в 00:49:15 UTC+1, Tyler Fowle:

[Oleksandr Popov]

Could it be that you are using some browser extensions that block access to this URL?
Perhaps these are privacy-related extensions that hide the User-Agent and/or something else?

среда, 21 января 2026 г. в 00:49:15 UTC+1, Tyler Fowle:

[Tyler Fowle]

Does the URL open to this? Because I do sometimes get this if I open either your or my URL, yet the search still does not work.

Additionally, as mentioned by Francisco Pataro in the thread they posted just a moment ago, FireFox does indeed work just fine. It appears to only affect Chrome - which, given Google's tumultuous history with this extension, might actually be the source of the issue to begin with.

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[Tyler Fowle]

Additionally, I do not use any extensions that block the user agent, no. I do use uBlock Origin Lite as well as Privacy Badger as my only privacy-related extensions, but disabling either of those does not change the resulting error.

[Oleksandr Popov]

Forecastfox uses the open project OpenStreetMap to search for cities.
Please check how this site works for you:
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html
This site uses the same API as Forecastfox.

среда, 21 января 2026 г. в 22:02:42 UTC+1, Tyler Fowle:

[Coot Master]

ok  i tried  5x 5.1  it DOES SAME THING w CHOME ONLY!!

it doesnt matter what version

i cant put 4x in its not supported 

it seems to be CHROME ONLY  

im not sure why it says error

[Francisco Pataro]

It works for me...

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[Oleksandr Popov]

Sorry, but I cannot reproduce the error.
When I search for "MILWAUKEE," it finds three locations for me.

четверг, 22 января 2026 г. в 17:22:41 UTC+1, Coot Master:

[Coot Master]

ok here  again my  3 browsers ONLY  CHROME  is broken

[Tyler Fowle]

I, too, am still having this issue in Chrome and Chrome only. I don't use any proxy or VPN, so it cannot be an ISP problem, given it does work in Firefox on the same computer/network, no tunneling in operation. I still think it's a Chrome-caused problem. Thankfully, I was able to at least export the settings from the Firefox extension and import them to the Chrome extension as a workaround to load my locations.

As for using the source website directly in Chrome, it loads the result without issue.

And proof the same extension function still works on Firefox, but still not Chrome: