Forecastfox 2.2.2 -- Latest Firefox support

[Jon Stritar]

Hi all,

I've updated Firefox to support the latest versions of Firefox. You can try it here:

https://static.getforecastfox.com/downloads/forecastfox-latest.xpi

The problem was a small race condition with how Forecastfox starts up. I'm not sure what in Firefox changed but we worked around it. Let me know how it works for you and I'll post it to AMO.

Thanks

--Jon

[happysurf]

Seems all OK on my FIREFOX_16_0b6_BUILD1.
Thank you so much Jon.

[mjo]

Works great in SeaMonkey 2.13 Beta 5 also
Thx Jon

[David]

I can't get it to work in FF 15 or FF 16 beta.  I can't add cities to it.  And there is a MAJOR bug in the nightly forecasts...the Feels Like low for each night's forecast are way off from AccuWeather, sometimes as much as 10 degrees.  When a weather program/extension is off by that much, it's useless.

David

[Bryan Price]

Works for me, 15, 16 and even 18.0A1 Nightly.  I can add and delete cities.  I'd suggest seeing if there are any error messages in the error log.

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[Tony Mechelynck]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0
SeaMonkey/2.15a1 ID:20121004161330 c-c:861e8385f731 m-c:fd724f194a1f

Works for me in this SeaMonkey nightly. :-) :-) :-)

[David]

I finally got it to work.  There was something corrupt in my Mozilla profile. But I find it meaningless if the nightly feels-like temperature is a random number..

David

[Chief Engineer]

Firefox 16 b5 here. 2.2.2 did the trick. Thanks for all of your efforts!

[blegs38552]

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, Jon Stritar wrote:

[blegs38552]

This worked for me. Running Firefox 16 on Windows 8. I had previous installed Firefox 15 nd updated to 16. When I looked at Windows Programs and Features I saw both installed. I uninstalled 15 which ended up removing both. Reinstalled 16 and added this extension,which did not work until I downloaded this latest version.

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, Jon Stritar wrote:

[Fbox]

Works now in Firefox 16.0 Beta 6. Thank you!

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, Jon Stritar wrote:

[David]

I found out the reason I couldn't add cities was a extension called Google Disconnect, which blocks Google requests.  Your settings pages had a couple of those requests.  Once I unblocked those requests on your page, everything worked fine.

I also found out the nightly  "feels like bug" is actually a bug with the Accuweather free site. They have different feels-like nightly forecast in the free and premium Accuweather pages.  Forecastfox uses the Premium settings.  I contacted Accuweather and they will make the necessary changes to fix the bug.

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, Jon Stritar wrote:

[Littlemutt]

Now, if we could get the Radar to update without restarting, or
opening another window would be back to being perfect again. Radar
data will load the initial loop sequence, but then never updates after
the initial startup.

[Jon Stritar]

Is this happening to everyone? Can you check if there are any javascript errors in the error console?

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[Littlemutt]

It updates properly on my winxp machine at work running 15.0.1, will
find out later today once the 16 update comes out if its broken in 16
or not. Definitely not updating in 18+ and nothing in the error
console.

[Milos Milic]

Hello,

add-on bar problem (keeps reappearing)

Latest version of forecastfox (2.2.2) have some issues with add-on bar. If I hide it, it will reappear next time I start Firefox (16.0 final) . Any idea how to resolve this?

Cheers,

[Littlemutt]

Ok, just updated Firefox to 16.0 on my winXP SP3 machine at work, and the new version of ForecastFox 2.2.2 is updating the radar loop as it should, every 15 mins.  So... That means that start with Firefox 17 the update for the radar is where it probably got broken.  If someone using Firefox 17 beta could confirm would help perhaps, or even someone with Firefox 18 Aurora build would help.  I use trunk, and just came off 18 as it was pushed to Aurora yesterday and I know its broken there. 

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[Bryan Price]

My 18.0A1 is updating as it should. /shrug.

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[Littlemutt]

After several days of testing this addon I can report the following:
The Radar loop updates as it should, every 15 mins on following builds:
16, 16.01, 17.0b1
The Radar loop will NOT update every 15 mins, only downloads the 1st set of graphics for the Radar Loop
18.0a1 Aurora (previously noted when 18 was Trunk/Nightly) and the latest Trunk now 19.0

While I'm not a coder, I'm wondering if whatever you have done to fix ForecastFox to get it back on the main-window rather than only showing in a 'new window', is also perhaps the same fault with the Radar loop not updating ?  Opening a 'new window' will update the Radar Loop. 

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, Jon Stritar wrote:

[Tony Mechelynck]

Strange. In this build:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
SeaMonkey/2.16a1 ID:20121011064956 c-c:8a86f48e53ea m-c:2fae8bd461da

which has been running all night with only its "first" browser window,
the satellite display ends at 2AM EDT at the moment, which means a
little less than an hour ago: admittedly more than 15 min, but
certainly not "all night". Maybe the satellite map for Western Europe
(where I live) doesn't update more often than once every hour.

[Milos Milic]

Ok, further to my previous comment I have installed forecastfox on several laptops last week (4 to be precise) and ALL of them experience same issue: If Forecastfox is put to statusbar/add-on bar, it will trigger this add-on bar to reappear ever if disabled by default "CTRL+/". Every time you restast Firefox add-on bar will be there even if you close it previously.  On 2 new laptops I have installed Firefox for the first time and forecastfox as the ONLY extension/add-on and problem is there. For some reason forecast triggers add-on bar upon restart. Disabling forecast, behavior is as intended, add-on bar stays hidden until I use "CRTL+/" to show/hide it.

This is extremely annoying.

With Fx 15.01 I had to use forecast 2.0.21 and patched forecastfox.jar file from this link: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=11999213#p11999213  in order to resolve this issue, but in Fx v16 it doesn't work.

It cannot be no one else has this issue, as I tried with clean Fx installation as explained above.

Your help is appreciated.

Cheers,

[Littlemutt]

More testing over past 3 days, narrowed down where it quit working,
the following link shows all the patches (over 100) that landed
between when it was last good, and went broken:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fcc533f691e9&tochange=a21fd4d085ad

Last build it worked is: 20120831030612 fcc533f691e9 where first 1/2
is date 2nd half if changeset
First build it failed is 20120901030528 a21fd4d085ad

Archives for hourly tinderbox builds don't go back far enough to
regression search beyond the above Nightly builds. Perhaps a visual
inspection of the patches in the regression range will reveal which
patch has broken the Radar Loop from updating. Nothing jumps out at
me, but I'm not a coder. There were some Array patches. Observing
the forecastfox.sqlite file in the profile I can see it update at 15
min intervals, even in broken builds that does not update the Radar
Loop, and examination of the sqlite file with SQlite-browser the Epoch
date is also correct, so its just something blocking the painting/
updating of the Radar Loop. I've been trying to read through the
forecastfox.jar file, but its huge and so far I've not found point in
code (keeping in mind I don't really know what I'm looking for) that
would trigger the update download and updating of the .gif for the
Radar.

I hope this helps some to find the area that needs fixing, or perhaps
a bug will need to be filed on Firefox for the breakage.

[Jon Stritar]

Thanks for reporting these problems. Can you both file bugs for these issues?

http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/entry

We should be able to track these issues easier there.

Thanks!

--Jon

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[Littlemutt]

Thanks to another tester of Nightly builds the regressor has been
found:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722861

Waiting now to see what/if the dev's can/will do about it.

On Oct 17, 10:57 am, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for reporting these problems. Can you both file bugs for these
> issues?
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> http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/entry
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> We should be able to track these issues easier there.
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> Thanks!
> --Jon
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Littlemutt <jmjjeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > More testing over past 3 days, narrowed down where it quit working,
> > the following link shows all the patches (over 100) that landed
> > between when it was last good, and went broken:
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> >http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fcc533f6...

[Littlemutt]

Looks like something has changed in the way imgCache works, see:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/imgICache

On Oct 17, 10:57 am, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for reporting these problems. Can you both file bugs for these
> issues?
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> http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/entry
>
> We should be able to track these issues easier there.
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> Thanks!
> --Jon
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Littlemutt <jmjjeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > More testing over past 3 days, narrowed down where it quit working,
> > the following link shows all the patches (over 100) that landed
> > between when it was last good, and went broken:
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> >http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fcc533f6...

[Jon Stritar]

Thanks! I'll take a look at this.

[Klaatu]

Works just fine w/Firefox 16.0.1 (Win 7), including radar loop.

[randy thiesen]

This doesn't work for me on Firefox 16.0.2. Your link doesn't download. Is there a way to get his back up and running on FF 16.0.2?

[Bryan Price]

You're looking at a Gmail issue.  Clicking the link... really does nothing.  Right click the link, copy the link location, open up a new tab/window, and paste the URL into the address bar.  THEN it will work.  It's stopped working for at least a year, now that I think about it.  And where does one complain about Gmail?  The forums/googlegroup are ignored for Gmail.  Funny, since that is what we are using here.

[Bryan Price]

Then there is something going on between Firefox and static.getforecastfox.com.

Wait, PaleMoon can get it?  Use your PaleMoon and right click the link in Gmail and do a save as.  Then go to your add-ons (Ctrl-Shift-A) and then click on the gear at the top and do a Install add-on from file from Firefox.

If PaleMoon can connect (I'm running the portable 32-bit version myself as an alt browser, Nightly 64-bit is my main), Firefox SHOULD be able to connect.  That might be an add-on conflict, or it might be a configuration problem.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Randy Thiesen <rexpr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry bro it don't work with Firefox 16.2 it does work with PaleMoon which is a x64 version of Firefox. I get a message above the address bar saying "This add on can't be downloaded because of a connection failure on static getforecastfox.com" and that's it. Stops right there.