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Linux, Mac, Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 13,357 downloads
ForecastFox is an extension that brings international weather from AccuWeather.com to your Firefox Web browser. You can use your US zip code or you can easily find your town or city by using the built in search tool. It is unobtrusive and lightweight, yet can be customized to display nearly as much data as the leading desktop weather programs. If you can't find what you are looking for, click the weather icons displayed to open the AccuWeather.com forecast for that day. A slider, just like the one notifying you when your downloads are completed, pops up from the bottom right corner of your screen when the current conditions are updated. You can even set what appears in it or disable it.
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mjm01010101Reviewing 0.8.5 (Feb 17, 2006)
uninstalled recently after the severe weather alerts got grating. I know it's a configurable option, but it didn't used to bug me so often. I still keep around for users that have grown to love this puppy.
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ThumperZ1
Reviewing 0.8.5 (Feb 17, 2006)
I like forcecastfox and used to run it all the time. Then I found 1-Click Weather. It offers me more detail, and doesn't seem as quirky.
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Blue_Horse
Reviewing 0.8.2.2 (Sep 29, 2005)
“Forecastfox”, along with “All-In-One Sidebar”, “PlainOldFavorites”, and “InfoLister” are my most favourite and used extensions for my Mozilla Firefox v1.0.7. Fabulous! I would like to thank all of the the authors for the great job they have done with all of them. The main problem the authors of Forecastfox seems to be where to find a weather site that offers free downloading of accurate weather data. And there ARE problems with this. But this is not caused by the authors of Forecastfox but by the weather sites themselves. Some months ago Forecastfox switched from Weather.com to AccuWeather.com (see the page for the extension on Mozilla Update) and there has been some griping about this on the Forecastfox forums by Users of the extension. However, as I am composing this message, my TV is showing me the local weather forecast from The Weather Channel (which receives its data from Environment Canada) and it is showing the unusual weather warning we are presently under in my city, meanwhile neither Weather.com, nor AccuWeather.com, nor The Weather Channel’s site show this unless I dig around looking for it well away from the main page for my city. If NONE of these sites display this information along with the forecast then how can Forecastfox be expected to? I just wish that there was a free plug-in for IE shell browsers that did the same thing as Forecastfox does for Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape. Or am I missing something? :-) I give it a rating of 10 out of 5!
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richtam123
Reviewing 0.8.2.2 (Sep 28, 2005)
I agree with fyrewalll. Accuweather can be quirky. Even now I still get a popup warning of a thunderstorm that was cancelled a couple of hours ago. I have also seen "Sunny" late at night etc. but don't get me wrong, I love this handy little program but it does need a little work. I also like the radar but I wouldn't mind seeing it at least twice the current size.
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