Is ForecastFox (Chrome) gone?

[Joey]

No longer in the Chrome Store (404 Not Found link), and it appears to have uninstalled itself from my Chrome / Microsoft Edge. 

Is this happening to anyone else? I cannot find it for my new computer.

[John Farren]

Seems it's not being maintained, maybe due to the war in Ukraine.

Some days ago I downloaded it for Firefox/Windows from the ForecastFox website, and it installed but only partially worked - it opened with the default location of NYC, but did not allow changing location.

Other users have reported this.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:23 PM Joey <joeyfre...@gmail.com> wrote:

No longer in the Chrome Store (404 Not Found link), and it appears to have uninstalled itself from my Chrome / Microsoft Edge. 

Is this happening to anyone else? I cannot find it for my new computer.

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[Todd King]

It's been gone from the Chrome Web Store for several months.  You might get lucky have have it come back on its own, I did, sort of.  I have 3 desktop PCs, a laptop, a Chromebox and a Chromebook at home and a month ago it was gone from all of them and them one day about a week ago it reappeared on the laptop and one PC.  They are both running Win 10 but one of the other PC's is Win 10 also and it didn't get it back.  And everything works in the extension.  It retained all my settings.  I'll see how long it lasts.
But I did A LOT  looking for a replacement and this is the closest thing I could find. It's just called Weather Forecast.  The icon is almost identical to ForecastFox. It doesn't show anything on hover but it was about the only one that has radar in the popup window like ForecastFox.

[Joey]

Thank you for the Weather Forecast link. I sideloaded ForecastFox from an old PC, and it worked fine for a few days but then it seems Edge/Chrome have completely removed them. 

I'm using Weather Forecast now alongside this "Weather" extension, which has a futurecast radar feature. Between the two of them, this works as a replacement, but ForecastFox sure was great for the past decade.

[Jonathan B. Horen]

Thanks for the "Weather" extension link. I'm now using it on Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome).

It's not as good as ForecastFox... but neither is ForecastFox, any more. 🙁

[Jesse Campbell]

I switched to "UV Weather" which doesn't requires no access to every website you visit.

[Todd King]

I'm glad Weather Forecast is working out for you guys.  It's not ForecastFox but it will have to do for now.

@Jesse Campbell, I tried UV weather and it pretty decent.  I kind of remember looking at it when I was looking for a FF replacement.  It's got a lot more info than I need but it's packaged pretty well.  And the radar style is not what I prefer.  It is nice that the permissions are less.  I like Weather Forecast better but it comes down to personal preference.

[Skaene]

well crap. 
I should have checked around first. I still had it, but it throwed an error when i tried to add a location so I did the standard 'uninstall/reinstall' thing, but theres nothing to reinstall. 
Crying in a corner brb. 

[Todd King]

@ Skaene  Well that's a bummer.  Hopefully one of the suggestions here will work for you.  I keep hoping the Forecastfox will come back to life but I believe the developer is in Ukraine so who knows.