Firefox used to show local weather that was updated regularly at the top of the home page. How do I regain this?
The various versions of Firefox 3.x I was using showed local temperature and weather at the top of the screen. Though I think I unintentionally turned this off before upgrading to ver 8, I miss it and want to get it back. Any information on how to do this will be appreciated.
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Since you don't mention news and that it was at the top sounds like a toolbar, toolbar icon, widget, or gadget.
Try this Google search it will probably remind you of what addon you used.
Extensions like: Forecastfox Weather, 1-Click Weather, AniWeather, WeatherBug, WeatherWidget
You might have eliminated it because auto-refreshing might have some impact on your system.
That link is helpful but leads to the conclusion that those add ons have not been updated to function with Firefox 8. Thanks for the info. Patience waiting for updates.
Looked to me like they were, I checked three of them, and I wouldn't install any of them, why bog down your browser with extremely large extensions in two cases, the third one was what used to be marked experimental but It would appear to be a popup window which would be good, press the the button and it comes up, but you could use a keyword shortcut for the the weather like "w:" or "w" without any extension, just a bookmark and be a full page weather report with your own cookies for customization.
Use iGoogle as the home page: http://www.google.com/ig
iGoogle does allow creation of a home page giving me that weather information, however, I cannot get Firefox to accept the customized home page to be what comes up when I go to Firefox. Instead each time I get the igoogle page to customize. Very frustrating. Any suggestions anyone?
Are you keeping cookies from the Google site(s)?
You can manage the permissions for the domain in the current tab by going to Page Info > Permissions.
You can access Page Info via the right-click context menu on a web page and via the Tools menu.
- Tools > Page Info > Permissions
You can inspect and manage the permissions for all domains on the about:permissions page via the location bar.