Firefox weather

(Sourced from ideas here)

For those weather nutters out there who are smart enough to have already moved to Firefox instead of IE might know about Forecastfox, a firefox weather extension.

Well, a customised version has been made that can use "user enterable" url's for radar images (the problem before being that for radar you had to live in the US).

So... what you need to do to try it out.

Grab a copy of firefox if you havent already (far superior to IE).

Grab a copy of the custom extension here

Install the extension and restart firefox.

In the Forecastfox settings:

Radar->Radar Image->Make it "Custom", Animated, 640x480
Set the URL to whatever the BOM url for you town is - Darwin being "http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR633.gif"

Done - the green icon at the bottom right of the screen will have the latest 128K radar page as a popup.

Let me know if you have any issues with it.

Testing now, cheers

very nice there OverDrive

Nice addon, won't be able to try it for some time (no net atm) but thanks :)

No idea how to set the radar, my "radar" menu on options only has enable display and enable tooltip. I'm on 0.8.2.4. Is this the same as yours??

edit: my bad, my version doesn't appear to be the "customisable" version.

I like it, I like it a lot :D

Good find OD

love it.. love it... and love it

Me likes, me likes.

Now thats cool

i followed the instructions and get location does not exist :(
got it working now

bringing up an old thread - do people still use this proggy?
i am using firefox 3 and cannot get this to work with bom.gov.au

I've just been using the iGoogle as my homepage with BOM and weather on it.

i just use vista sidebar :P

I Just wait for OD to tell the weather :)

oh and the plug doens't work for me either,

Cant customise the radar with Firefox 3 :(