803150 - ForecastFox Radar Loop not updating Using Latest build 2.2.2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

I have narrowed down where it quit working,
the following link shows all the patches (over 100) that landed
between when it was last good, and went broken:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fcc533f691e9&tochange=a21fd4d085ad

Last build it worked is: 20120831030612 fcc533f691e9  
First build it failed is 20120901030528 a21fd4d085ad

Archives for hourly tinderbox (both m-c & m-i) builds don't go back far enough to
regression search beyond the above Nightly builds.   

Also have filed a bug in the ForecastFox Issues group:
http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/detail?id=29

Any change someone has the archives and can reduce this further ?

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Is the ForecastFox url https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/forecastfox-weather/ ?

Comment 2

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #1)
> Is the ForecastFox url
> https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/forecastfox-weather/ ?

yes..

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

I installed the ForecastFox.
How do I set option of the ForecastFox?
What is "Radar Loop" ?

Sorry, please provide exact step to reproduce.

Comment 4

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

when you install and restart the browser you should get a setup page
Select your location
the settings you choose are auto-saved, once you have it setup you can close the tab

The Radar Loop should be at the left end of Weather Icons, a Green Globe for me in the US version.  Hovering over the globe should display a loop of local rader that has an hours worth of loop for the Radar.  It will then update to the next 15 min increment every 15 mins.  Usually here it takes 3-7 mins past the expected time to update.

So you will see a loop time stamped:
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45 

and continuing to update at ~ 15 mins intervals

What is happening is the update is not taking place, so after a period of time you will note that Radar display is 'behind' and not updating.  

You can 'force' it to update by merely opening another window...

Trouble shooting this is going to be time-consuming I'm afraid...took me 3 days to find the regression window :(

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

I leave browser for more than one hour and observed it whether the data were updated.

Regression window(cached m-i)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/e938ef11c6d2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 ID:20120831094817
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/bdc68f5ddb38
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 ID:20120831105817
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=e938ef11c6d2&tochange=bdc68f5ddb38

Suspected : Bug 722861

Comment 6

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #5)
> I leave browser for more than one hour and observed it whether the data were
> updated.
> 
> Regression window(cached m-i)
> Good:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/e938ef11c6d2
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0
> ID:20120831094817
> Bad:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/bdc68f5ddb38
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0
> ID:20120831105817
> Pushlog:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/
> pushloghtml?fromchange=e938ef11c6d2&tochange=bdc68f5ddb38
> 
> Suspected : Bug 722861

Thanks Alice - great work as usual :)

Comment 7

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Please note that the API to obtain imgICache was changed in bug 722861. This means that the addon author must update Forecast Fox, so this is more like a Tech Evangelism bug.

Comment 8

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I updated https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/imgICache to reflect the changes necessary.

Comment 9

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

I notified the developer about this via AMO.

Comment 10

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

Tracking for FF18 because this addon has significant number of users .

Comment 11

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

The developer is aware.  Information has been posted the ForecastFox forum/group here:
https://groups.google.com/group/forecastfox-users/t/fe1481bbdee037b?hl=en
where he stated today he would look into it after I advised him the changes to the imgCache method.

Also there is bug open on his bug tracker: 
http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/detail?id=29

I took a stab at fixing the addon, but got in over my head.  Hopefully he will get to it this week-end and the fix is not that hard, I hope.

Comment 12

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

(In reply to Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11 from comment #11)
> The developer is aware.  Information has been posted the ForecastFox
> forum/group here:
> https://groups.google.com/group/forecastfox-users/t/fe1481bbdee037b?hl=en
> where he stated today he would look into it after I advised him the changes
> to the imgCache method.
> 
> Also there is bug open on his bug tracker: 
> http://code.google.com/p/forecastfox/issues/detail?id=29
> 
> I took a stab at fixing the addon, but got in over my head.  Hopefully he
> will get to it this week-end and the fix is not that hard, I hope.

Any information if the developer fixed this yet ? Don't see anything happening on the bug tracker? Is it possible to do a second reach out at this time ?

Comment 13

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

No longer tracking for release as the developer has already been notified and has a fix on his way as per jorge.

Comment 14

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

Posted 2/24/13 
https://groups.google.com/group/forecastfox-users/browse_thread/thread/4590c247672340fa

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://static.getforecastfox.com/downloads/forecastfox-latest.xpi&usg=AFQjCNFUUp8L34dgi4PBeqZSb-oPFEyOWA

While not yet uplifted to AMO, version is 2.2.3 
The Radar update issue is fixed in this build, however there is still a problem when using the addon in Private Browsing mode in that the radar does not update.  Not sure if the author is looking for a work-around, but I'm going to close this now as WFM since using this addon in PB mode is likely an edge-case.  Further I suspect in PB mode that all caching is disabled and a whole new scheme will need to be worked out for storing radar-images while in PB mode.