Reviews for Forecastfox (fix version)
Forecastfox (fix version) by Oleksandr
141 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by robert3353, 8 years agoWhat are you thinking? why did you completely change the interface for this add on? I was on Linux earlier and thought that it just was not working correctly on FF because it was on Linux but NO I am now on Windows 7 Ultimate and it is just the same here. You used to be able to display the important info down on the lower add on bar that got replaced by the Classic theme restorer. But you are being just like the idiot FF devs. If I wanted to use a browser that looks and feels and STINKS just like the abortion called Google Chrome I would just use Google Chrome and not FF. Why is this add on now in a STUPID BUTTON up on the top R/H corner of FF. For me it is a PAIN IN MY !@@ to use it so I DON'T I have uninstalled the thing. Why did you move it off of the lower add on bar that can easily be put back by the FF Classic UI add on. I liked just being able to glance down on the lower edge of FF to see the weather Now you have to click on the stupid button. WHAT A LAME IDEA! Your add on was the FIRST AND IT WILL BE THE LAST add on that I ever send in any money to sup[port. 3 months ago I sent you $20 USD for your efforts but now I feel like DEMANDING MY MONEY BACK WHAT this is now is not what I was supporting.
I FEEL ROBBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before the change having this add on was the ONLY reason I was still using FF. Now I suppose it does not matter what one I use. They are all LAME I am thinking seriously of uninstalling FF along with your LAME Forcast Fox (FIXED oh I mean BROKEN!) add on.
Well I am not a developer or coder etc like the other millions of us out here where some flip burgers some build houses or work on aircraft etc etc the vast majority out here are not programmers and would never be able to develop software. All I know is that the arogant devs of Moxilla are the true culprits of all the issues over the years. Every new version of FF that they release seems like over 80% of add ons get broken. They are a lot like a vast majority of devs in the Linux community as well as the open source arena. They do not give a damn about the people who use their software and for the life of me I cannot understand why in hell they even do it. Too many of them when asked about something a user does not understand how to use or gives some negative feedback about changes that adversely affects most users all too many devs respond with read the F ing manual or hey its free you don't have to use it.
I do not understand very much of what was talked about in the two links you sent me. However this is what I have done since I posted these remarks. The real cause of the issues are not with the individuals who make the add on's the blame sits squarely with the Fire Fox devs and the Mozilla Foundation for letting the dev's do what they want with out any regard for the end users. since posting this is what I have been doing. I have done several Google searches and have come up with some names who are at the head of the Mozilla Foundation and I have also found the snail mail address for their head quarters. Tomorrow I plan on composing a detailed old fashioned buisness letter spelling out all of the reasons as to why I have uninstalled Fire Fox from all of my compuiters and mobile devices with some suggestions that they should implement if they do not want to become irrelavent to the many of us who use their software but really do not like it any more. When I finish my letter I will take it down to my Post Office and mail it Registered with a return recipt so I know that some one on the recieving end actually got my letter. I am an older individual and I remember back before the PC was even in existance. For the most part back then the vast majority of companies as well as non profit foundations were very focused on good customer service as well as good customer relations. Over the years all of that has been replaced by the impersonal tecnology. Every company you call today all have a stupid computerized answering system which usually takes about 5 to 10 minutes to wade through all of the lame menu options before you actually are able to speak with a real person. I remember the day when the first thing you heard was a real red blooded human who answered the phone who asked nicely the purpose for your call. I have found that the most effective means of communicating about an important issue is an old fashioned buisness letter, not email and definately not live chat. It will be interesting to see what sort of response if any that I get from sending my letter. A few years ago I operated a small buisness and needed at the time a very expensive and high end large format printer. It was back when hardware was very expensive, I purchased a scanner that was so expensive that it came bundled with a full version of Photo Shop that at the time cost $600 dollars. This HP printer was like that and almost cost $800 but back then the ink was very inexpensive. Then about 6 months after buying this printer the industry decided to basicly give away the printers and the cost of the ink probably increased 1000%. It was so bad that we could not afford to even use this very expensifve printer that at the time had been reduced in price to around $120 instead of how much we spent only 6 months earlier. We put it up in a closet and everytime I saw it my blood did a slow boil. Then one day I could not stand it any longer and I sat down and wrote a long detailed letter to the new CEO of HP explaining why I would never ever purchase any prduct with the HP branding on it. I did not expect to get any response at all but I was shocked at what happened. A few days after sending the letter I received a phone call from the CEO's office. They must have called directory assistane to get my phone number becasue I did not put that in the letter. The CEO's secritary called to apologize for how thier decisions had negatively affected us and asked me to send them a copy of my original invoice which I mailed to them. They sent me a check for the full price of the pinter including the tax along with extra to cover shipping the printer back to HP. The letter that was sent along with the check had instructions of where to ship the printer along with an RMA number. So you never know what might happen if you send a respectfully written letter even if it is not a positive one.Developer response
posted 8 years agoplease read and answer:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/forecastfox-users/DTElo7WNVgQ/JzaAVm12CwAJ
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14747728#p14747728 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13028250, 8 years agoThe only reason I used this so I could see several days of weather at one time on the add on bar. If that's not an option, this addon become useless. There are a ton of addons that do what you made this one now do.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/
But do not worry, I'll come up with a workaround and will return Forecastfox previous form - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13028172, 8 years agoI want to be able to see multiple days of weather on the addon bar. I don't want to have to click on it. i reverted back to the old version. new version isn't worth it.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/
But do not worry, I'll come up with a workaround and will return Forecastfox previous form - Rated 1 out of 5by Ceanco, 8 years agoI appreciate the work the developer has done, but until the NoScript bug can be fixed - you can't whitelist the add-on so it can't be used - this is unusable for those of us using NoScript - which is a hell of a lot of people!
Sorry, Oleksandr, but this is no good.Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease write more details about NoScript to forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2913287 - Rated 1 out of 5by Proft, 8 years agoMenu bar no longer shows forecast options. Without this the add-on is not useful. And what is with the advertising hooks? Removing the add-on until this is fixed.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/
But do not worry, I'll come up with a workaround and will return Forecastfox previous form - Rated 1 out of 5by juergenmuc1, 8 years agoin my task line i found now on pic, i must open this before i can see my weather.
in your last version i have the week in my task line and morning and evening, now a symbol and finish.
that's your improvement ???
sorry !!! i downloaded now the version from last year and all is well in my task line. so much nonsense, sorry I'm very disappointed. update i switch it off.Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/
But do not worry, I'll come up with a workaround and will return Forecastfox previous form - Rated 1 out of 5by Leeoz, 8 years agoAwwww, I have the add-on bar but the weather is all gone from it now. I deleted it and tried reinstalling but I see nothing with this new one. I am running Firefox 64bit ver 53. I will miss this for sure.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/
But do not worry, I'll come up with a workaround and will return Forecastfox previous form - Rated 1 out of 5by ToddFucker, 8 years agoI could still do it with a restored add-on bar last night, why not today?
Developer response
posted 8 years ago"restored add-on bar" does not support new Firefox API - WebExtensions - Rated 1 out of 5by hallgrim, 8 years agoNow it's totally useless! The statusbar can be restored with The Addon Bar (restored). Fortunately I did not make a donation or were lost money!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Stylist2006, 8 years agoI just donated for the very good last version and today all settings are destroyed for a absolutely unusable updated version - wished I wouldn't have done so!
The last version urgently needs to be downloadable again.Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox.
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13022979, 8 years agoI am a 52 ESR user that has my add -ons update automatically. I didn't realize that it wasn''t compatible for me. I was having trouble with the 2.4.8 version not updating the location but I see below that you are working on a fix. Is there any way that I can recapture Forecastfox (fix version) 2.4.8 at this point. really miss this add-on. Please advise
Developer response
posted 8 years agoversion 2.4.8 - is broken: City search does not work
I could not fix and make version 2.4.9, because 2.4.8 uses the outdated version of jQuery
jQuery 1.x is now forbidden by Mozilla, read more: https://bit.ly/1TRIyZY
and I had to choose - either completely rewrite code for WebExtensions (version 3.4) or completely rewrite code for a new jQuery (version 2.4.9)
I chose WebExtensions. Sorry - Rated 1 out of 5by Us2inVa2, 8 years agoThis rating should be a five. Please fix your addon, I rolled back to 2.4.8 and disabled updates until it is fixed, like I did with the old version when this happened. This addon as it WAS, is vital for me in my life, for many reasons. Please make it work right.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar/addonbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions
But I'm not guilty - these are the inevitable changes in Firefox
All Xul-addons is die in Firefox 57 (November 2017)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ - Rated 1 out of 5by hortnut, 8 years agoLiked to be able to see all icons for multiple days and nights stretched across the menu bar. Plus have access to quick icons: radar, 5 day, hover over weather icon, get details for that day/night and so on. Use it on Laptops and Firefox. What is 3.4 intended for?
Response to Developer: None of my other Addons are broken. I know that FF [using 53.0.2] has changed its way of dealing with things overtime. Sigh...will use old version for as long as it is possible. I mean the old one works perfectly right now. In meantime will look for an alternative.Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions - Rated 1 out of 5by Carole09, 8 years agoI have no idea why you decided to ruin the best weather app available,were you having a bad day? What set this weather app apart from all the others was the ability to glance up or down and see the weather for numerous days without having to click.If you wanted more details then you clicked.I sure hope you re-think this terrible update.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions - Rated 1 out of 5by Todd, 8 years agoThis update has ruined one of my favorite add-ons. I have this positioned in the tab area of the frame instead of the status bar. I can also move it to either the menu bar or the bookmark bar. Can those positions still be used after the introduction of the new API?
Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions - Rated 1 out of 5by Fred Flintstone, 8 years agoI find it difficult to understand why the developer(s) decided to destroy the best features of this addon as part of an update.
There are dozens of weather addons available that give users one icon on the toolbar showing really limited information unless they click on the icon. What set Forecastfox apart from all the others was that users could view multiple-day forecast all at once, without the need to click on anything. In addition, users were given quick and easy access to a radar map, hourly forecasts, and detailed five-day forecasts. The only other addon that even came close to this level of functionality was AniWeather, but apparently, that one doesn't work at all anymore.
So, for whatever reason, you have chosen to ruin Forecastfox by reducing it to the level of all the other pathetic competitors, which means that I'll be staying on the previous version as long as possible.Developer response
posted 8 years agoSorry, but the statusbar is missing in new versions of Firefox.
The current version of Forecastfox is the version for the new API: WebExtensions