[EXT] Forecastfox (fix version)

[GBinHoosick]

All clear (at least for me). System radar option restored to showing radar rather than cloud cover. You may now return to your previously scheduled custom URL.

Thanks again, Cassette, for the clever temporary work-around. And, presumably, thanks Oleksander for fixing the bug. (Or was the problem on Accuweather's end? One of those many things in life we may never know the answer to.)

[thefowles1]

We were discussing this over on Google groups and noticed it's returned to normal, too. However, the extension appears to have been removed from the Chrome Web Store (this is the URL it should be, when clicking the link in the extension settings). Does anyone know what happened and/or if Oleksandr is okay?

[GBinHoosick]

I don't know the answers to your questions. However, I use Firefox and can report that Forecastfox is still listed among Firefox add-ons and, in fact, is a "recommended" extension. Here's the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search

[pschroeter]

All clear (at least for me). System radar option restored to showing radar rather than cloud cover. You may now return to your previously scheduled custom URL.

Thanks again, Cassette, for the clever temporary work-around. And, presumably, thanks Oleksander for fixing the bug. (Or was the problem on Accuweather's end? One of those many things in life we may never know the answer to.)

Thank you for reporting this, I can also confirm for me at least the "system" setting" is already back to normal. From years of past experience I expected it to get fixed I'm just happy it was so quick. I'm amused I found the link to the animated Gif it apparently uses.

[sundancer268]

I can no longer change locations from New York, what happened. Last week, Forecastfox would not up date the weather for my location, after a week of this, I removed and re-installed Forecastfox and now I can't change locations. I have paused Ghostery, disabled NoScript and still no location change, the window just sets there with the little icon spinning in the upper right corner and won't let me type in my Zip Code like it did in the past.

[Yort]

For years I've been using the old version of Forecastfox 2.4.8 on Pale Moon. However around September 11th it stopped updating the forecast but the radar was still working. I've reinstalled it several times but now all I see is "Connection Error" at the bottom of the screen. I really prefer this version over the new version and is my only reason I use Pale Moon. Can anyone help me get this fixed? Thanks.

[Cassette]

The Pale Moon version can be made to work again. Earlier in this thread there was a discussion on getting Forecastfox to work again by changing certain lines of URLs in the extension to use the old non-s3blog ones. Now those no longer work. Basically you want to reverse that process using the URLs from the fix version and put those in the Pale Moon extension in the accuweather-adapter.js file.

[Yort]

The Pale Moon version can be made to work again. Earlier in this thread there was a discussion on getting Forecastfox to work again by changing certain lines of URLs in the extension to use the old non-s3blog ones. Now those no longer work. Basically you want to reverse that process using the URLs from the fix version and put those in the Pale Moon extension in the accuweather-adapter.js file.

I'm not sure I understand. I've edited the two lines that DenBar suggested in the accuweather-adapter.js file but still get the connection error. The two lines are exactly the same as the original ones except the change HTTP to HTTPS. What are the URLs that you are referring?

While waiting for the developer's fix, just change two URLs in the "content/accuweather-adapter.js" file.
Modify lines 4 and 11 of this file by replacing them with these:

• s3forecast.adapter.SEARCH_URL_LOCATION = 'https://forecastfox3.accuweather.com/ad ... y-find.asp?';
• s3forecast.adapter.FORECAST_URL = "https://forecastfox3.accuweather.com/ad ... ols}=${rnd}";

[Cassette]

There are two relevant URLs you'll want to borrow from the Forecastfox fix version. One is on line 9 from the fix version which will replace the URL in line 10 on the classic version. The other is from line 11 of the fix version which replaces the URL on line 12 on the classic version. Those two lines will look like this.

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var CC_URL = 'https://s3blog.org/forecastfox3-accu-weather/current-conditions.asp?location=${location}&metric=0&langId=${lang}&${rnd_symbols}=${rnd}';

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var FORECAST_URL = "https://s3blog.org/forecastfox3-accu-weather/forecast-data.asp?location=${location}&metric=0&langId=${lang}&${rnd_symbols}=${rnd}";

[HillStreetBlues]

There are two relevant URLs you'll want to borrow from the Forecastfox fix version. One is on line 9 from the fix version which will replace the URL in line 10 on the classic version. The other is from line 11 of the fix version which replaces the URL on line 12 on the classic version. Those two lines will look like this.

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var CC_URL = 'https://s3blog.org/forecastfox3-accu-weather/current-conditions.asp?location=${location}&metric=0&langId=${lang}&${rnd_symbols}=${rnd}';

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var FORECAST_URL = "https://s3blog.org/forecastfox3-accu-weather/forecast-data.asp?location=${location}&metric=0&langId=${lang}&${rnd_symbols}=${rnd}";

Thank you from a Pale Moon user, worked a treat

[Yort]

BINGO!!!
Thank you Cassette. I never thought I'd get this working again.

[Anan]

I'm still unable to use this app on my WINX desktop -- can't change location from New York. I just get Ouroboros biting its tail forever. Is there a way I could go behind the interface and put my zipcode into the settings file? (I don't know where to find this.)
Anybody else still struggling?

[sundancer268]

I gave up on it, people talking about changing lines of code is way over my head, I will keep trying to reinstall every two or three weeks and hope it will somehow get fixed so normal people can use it.

[Cassette]

I'm still unable to use this app on my WINX desktop -- can't change location from New York. I just get Ouroboros biting its tail forever. Is there a way I could go behind the interface and put my zipcode into the settings file? (I don't know where to find this.)
Anybody else still struggling?

Changing locations works fine on my end. If you want to directly put your information in the settings file, the easiest way is to save the settings to a text file, modify that, then load the settings. By default the setting will use a city ID and not a zip code. The city ID can be taken from the accuweather website. It's the number at the end of your location's forecast page. The zip code can be used by changing the cityID:###### to postalCode:#####|US if you're in the United States. In my experience, the zip code data is slightly different for some reason.

[Anan]

Thanks @Cassette! I found a settings file on my laptop, which has the same OS and works fine, but my desktop will NOT change the location setting for me. Where should I put the settings file?