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We are getting close to releasing another release of Forecastfox. This version is mainly just a bug fix version. We hope to release it on Thursday. Here is what has been changed so far:

Version 0.8.1

Added: AccuWeather feedback link now in context menu.

Added: Opening in a new tab on left-click - hidden pref for 0.8.1.

Fixed: Days/nights that appear are now chosen based on time at location rather than computer’s time.

Fixed: Refresh 10 seconds after first error, 2 minute after subsequent ones.

Fixed: Forecastfox never refreshes if there is an error when the browser is first loaded.

Fixed: Pressing search twice makes the “Loading…” message disappear (Find Code dialog).

Fixed: Errors at startup can cause the options menu to not work.

Fixed: Modules are now loaded as needed to reduce startup.

Fixed: Infinite loop under certain error conditions when accessing the feed.

Fixed: Downgrade causes profiles to be deleted

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

We’ve released version 0.8 of Forecastfox. You can get it here.

Changes in this version are:

Added: Options for SWA slider frequency.

Added: Come up with safer way to write to file. (now all files are written to temp first and backups are created)

Fixed: Radar image is no longer downloaded if disabled.

Fixed: Wording for moon phase variable.

Fixed: The ‘Reload Weather Data’ button now refreshes the data from the server.

Fixed: SWA alert slider always shows icon and text.

Fixed: [nl] should not be an option for alert slider customization

Fixed: moon phase not available in current conditions tooltip

Fixed: Switch to Profile Context Menu Option Stops Working

Fixed: ForecastFox crashes Firefox after switching profiles

Fixed: Current conditions and forecast both update together now.

Fixed: Update based on expiration of data feed. Fixes weather display late because of cache bug.

Fixed: Now only have one error box and progress bar.

Fixed: Can’t create or rename profiles

Fixed: Incorrect day shown for today/tomorrow

Fixed: Error messages are now more user-friendly

Fixed: You no longer need to re-do your current configuration when the profiles.xml is corrupt.

Fixed: Metric pressures are now in millibars

Fixed: Incorrect times. If you see any more that are wrong, please update bug 10397.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

I know its been awhile since I’ve posted about Forecastfox, so I thought I would put something out there. We are now in a cvs freeze for version 0.8 of Forecastfox. That means we should have a 0.8 release this week some time. In the mean time, here are some links for Forecastfox that might interest people.

FAQ
Roadmap
Changelog
Quality Assurance
Localization

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

We are now up to version 0.7.9.2 on Forecastfox.

Changes since version 0.7.8:

Added: Deer Park (Firefox 1.1) Compatibility

Added: Moon phase and number

Fixed: Bug 10387 - Forcastfox can not display non-ASCII characters in customize dialog and tooltips.

Fixed: Bug 10400 - Long forecast summary is truncated in tooltip

Fixed: Bug 10401 - Location code bug (doesn’t handle single quotes)

Fixed: Bug 10424 - preferences can’t contain single quotes (fixes some upgrade/profile issues)

Fixed: Not pinging downgrades to 0.7.1/0.7

Fixed: Upgrade from 0.7.1/0.7 causes a problem with creating and renaming profiles.

Fixed: Options and About dialogs are no longer modal with the main browser window.

Fixed: (0.7.9.2) Profiles and settings being lost on firefox startup.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

Well, we’ve released 2 more version since 0.7.6. You can get them here

since 0.7.6:

Fixed: Links in Mozilla dialogs not working.

Fixed: Radar can now be shown when current conditions is disabled.

Added: New images!

Fixed: Import not correctly migrating files from previous versions.

Fixed: Options dialog changed focus incorrectly when validating inputs.

Fixed: Old error information retrieved sometimes.

Fixed: Forecastfox not being in the right position when next to throbber/update icon.

Fixed: Forecastfox breaking when too many days are selected.

Fixed: Default severe weather tooltip to text only.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

We’ve released version 0.7.6 of Forecastfox. You can get it here. We’ve change our data provider. All data is now coming from AccuWeather.com®

New to this version from 0.7.1

Added: Radar images (currently for US locations)

Added: Severe weather alerts

Added: ‘Preview’ column in the tooltip/label customization window.

Added: New images

Added: Netscape support

Fixed: Backend was reworked

Fixed: Much better settings/profiles migration from previous versions

Fixed: Too many small tweaks to remember

We will be coming out with a new version soon that has translations, and a better set of icons.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

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Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

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Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Forecastfox. I thought, I would just drop a note to let everyone know, that we are working feverishly on a version 0.7.5. It is really starting to shape up nicely, and I think it will be a vast improvement over 0.7.1.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that lets you get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

When we were working on the last version of Forecastfox, we tried to use spinbuttons in the options dialog to limit some input. Spinbuttons however are broken badly right now in Mozilla so we had to drop them. For us the main problems were that there was no native styling and no images in the default theme. There are some other issues with spinbuttons as well, but they really didn’t effect us. I even requested blocking status for Firefox 1.1 in the hopes that this would be corrected, but Asa Dotzler denied my blocking request.

It looks like Daniel Glazman is now doing some work on spinbuttons for NVU. Hopefully these changes will make it back into the Mozilla source, and someone will get the native styling working.

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