FireFox Friday – Watch the Weather With The Weather Watcher Live Firefox Extension

2009 March 20

tags: FireFox Friday, weather, WeatherBug

by timmy

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TGIF! Friday once again brings shrieks of elation and jumps for joy as work and school once again come to an end for the weekend AND FireFox Friday here at Timmyjohnboy.com!

OK, depending on your point of view, one of the above is worth more than the others, but stick around and hear about yet another FireFox Add-on I’ve tried out and found worthy of sharing!

The other day, while checking my Google Alert feed on the term “FireFox”, I came across this wonderfully unobtrusive weather add-on for FireFox. It’s called Weather Watcher Live Firefox Extension (they also make a desktop version but because I enjoy the ability to travel with Firefox Portable on my travel drive, I like the portability and the ease of use of the Firefox extension).

Here’s the down low! The page I came across was on Singer’s Creations’ blog on a post announcing the first release of the plugin (which means there may be some bugs along the way, which I haven’t come across yet). It retrieves weather conditions from WeatherBug weather stations and displays the information as nifty little icons at the bottom right of the browser window (one of the icons brings you to a doplar radar display).

Hovering your mouse pointer over the icons brings up the weather details for the particular day.

Explore the options menu (with a right click of any one of the icons) and see what settings can be changed and change the display options.

Now, downloading and installing this plugin, as easy as it was, was not as automatic as many Firefox add-ons. Visit Singer’s Creations’ announcement in their forums to find the download link.

You’ll find the link a little ways down the page (here’s a screen shot to help you recognize it):

Notice that it has the file extenxion XPI. Save the file someplace, browse to the downloaded location, and drag and drop the file into and open Firefox window. That should begin the installation process for you! Easy and homemade peach cobbler! Now, to get the current weather conditions AND forecast, all you have to do is glance and hover! Now, isn’t Firefox the niftiest browser you’ve ever used?

Join us next Friday to kick off yet another weekend (TGIF!) with another FireFox Friday!