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Hi, the name is Jon Tristar, and you can search for his mail even in this group. Unfortunately I sent many emails to him, he said he was going to open source it at soe point, but no progress has been made.
cheers,
G.
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In regards to stale data for the forecast, I've seen and heard a lot of people blaming Forecastfox, but in reality, it looks like Accuweather isn't updating the data feeds. The request URL for XML data is (replace 99999 with your zip code):
http://forecastfox3.accuweather.com/adcbin/forecastfox3/forecast-data.asp?location=postalCode%3A99999%7CUS&metric=0&langId=1
You can clearly see the <refreshDateTime> stamp in the top of the file. The local one was last refreshed 2 days ago
so I looked at a few other locations, which were up-to-date, and then the 'local' one magically updated again.
Looks like Forecastfox might be off the hook for this
I didn't read the whole thread, but usually this kind of behaviour can be caused by proxy that are caching some content around the globe.
this might explain the fact that everybody is having different experiences, and the problem in this case might be on accuweather servers that doesn't set the cache to acceptable values (or they don't disable it)
just my .02$
cheers,
Gianfranco
On Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:48:49 UTC, HerbEppel wrote:I use "Forecastfox (Pseudo-Static) 2.2.4-pm" under Pale Moon 25.2.0 and
just noticed that the forecasts are lagging behind by 1 day for some of
my locations, i.e. the current day is shown as Wednesday, whereas for
other locations it is shown correctly as Thursday.
Any suggestions?
Sorry if this has been discussed before. I haven't been following this
group for a while.
Thank you
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslations.uk
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Why are you posting Firefox stuff on Google Groups? Mods.... can you please remove this junk? Totally posted in the wrong place.
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Hi Lucas, your answer gives me the possibility to better reply :-)
let me explain, the original forecastfox developer started the ff extension for firefox only.
And created this group.
Some years later he disappeared from the mail list, and the mail list started talking about people asking/posting fixes to every problem (firefox or chrome).
Suddenly everything stopped working some weeks ago, and one great person did the trick to make it work again.
This person is a firefox extension developer, but gave the fix also for people running chrome (without fixing, just giving the hint).
So for now we have a working forecastfox only for firefox, waiting for some chrome people to come here and take the fix.
Yes, we might start a new forecastfox-fix-version-firefox group, but we kept this one, since the userbase (was/his) mostly firefox users and the extension does only run here (I guess, don't know).
I think in the future somebody will fix it for chrome too if needed, but in my opinion one group is better than two different groups sharing the same (or part) of the same codebase.
bugs and changes on accuweather applies on both extensions, even if one is still to be fixed.
I hope I gave you a better answer now :-)
Have a nice day,
Gianfranco
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On 11 Feb 2015 19:14, "Lucas Edwards" <luked...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Very well put explanation. I admit I jumped the gun with my first comment.
I was working so also my answer was on a hurry, usually I give myself some little more time prior to answer :-)
>Nice to see some level headed people here. Far to often I have to deal with people like Reinaldo and need to practice being more patient. I'm not sure what to call you, so I'll just say Thanks Gianfranco!
Reinaldo didn't answer badly just this thread had one person stealing work, this makes people (like me, Debian Maintainer and fully FOSS supporter) so nervous!
>I won't spam up the thread any further. Sorry for adding my junk to the discussion.
we can continue privately if needed but I guess everything seems clear now on both sides :-)
People with the same problem will hopefully find the answer prior to posting, so the time is never loosed!
>I'll move onto another extension for now but am a little sad to see this extension go away for Chrome (I'd love to see some Chrome people fix it as well!!)
The Developer (Oleksandr) posted a link to a fix from somebody for chrome too, so you might give it a try!
> and totally off topic but I've had issues with Firefox ever since they joined up with Yahoo or I'd consider switching to Firefox just to use this addon.
privately or here as your wish, which kind of problems? I'm a firefox and yahoo user, I never had troubles...
cheers,
Gianfranco
So you did the fix? nice! I thought somebody took the fix and cherry-picked for chromium :-)
G.
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