Forecastfox is a Useful Chrome Weather Extension
Posted on 24. Apr, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Reviews, Tips
Since the days of the notorious WeatherBug process hog, I have never really been into weather related add-ins, widgets or whatever-you-may-call-them. That’s probably because they have not been useful, end up taking too much of my PC system resources or a combination of the two. So when I installed the Ensolis Forecastfox extension for Chrome browser, I found it quite useful despite my misgivings. In fact, I think I like it.
After installing the extension you’ll need to configure your location by putting in your zipcode at the options menu. This can be done either by right clicking on the Forecastfox tab, opening the forecast and selecting option from the bottom or going through the extensions menu. If you are a frequent traveler, you can set up multiple locations and easily switch locations depending on where you are.
Finding out the current weather is real easy when you have the temperature and conditions displayed in the browser at the top right: 
Click on the Forecastfox extension icon, and you get a quick rundown of the forecast for the next week, with the information being pulled from the Accuweather database. I was surprised how quickly this data was pulled, perhaps Ensolis caches the data as it is updated from Accuweather:
The extension also gives you a nice little red box at the top when there are severe weather warnings, as was the case for me a few days ago when there was a frost advisory in my area.
Forecastfox actually is a Firefox add-in that has been ported over by Ensolis as a Chrome extension. This is not a bad thing: the folks who developed this already had an existing product that they had a good following on (20 million downloads). I think we can expect to see more solid add-ins for Firefox be moved onto the Google browser platform as adoption levels continue to rise.
Try out Forecastfox for a good weather extension in Google Chrome. I promise it’s not like WeatherBug.
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25. Apr, 2010
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