FoxClocks 2
FoxClocks 2 is now available for download at addons.mozilla.org. Feature requests, bug reports and general gossip are very welcome in the comments, but if you’re having a problem, please check the FoxClocks FAQ and search the comments below for a solution before posting. Thanks!
Here’s what’s new in FoxClocks 2:
- Keep up-to-date: automatic time zone database updates
- Behind a firewall? update automatically from your LAN
- Choose the right time zone more easily: new Zone Picker
- Show your clocks in the statusbar/toolbar, just in a tooltip (mouseover), or both
- Style your clocks: bold, italic, etc
- Set your clocks to change colour: e.g. make your clocks green from 9 to 5 local time
- Sort your clocks by name or local time
- Move your FoxClocks settings between computers
Let us know what you think.
November 18th, 2006 at 07:32 GMT
Hi!
Impressive add-on. However one problem. My FoxClock doesn’t have a memory & doesn’t save save my watchlist selections (reverts to default settings). Can you assist?
Thank you.
Mike Carter
November 18th, 2006 at 07:38 GMT
Hi Mike,
I guess you mean when you restart your changes are lost? This can mean Firefox/Thunderbird isn’t exiting cleanly or that there’s an invisible Firefox process.
Under Windows, make sure there isn’t a Firefox (let’s assume you’re running Firefox) process still running after you’ve shut down your browser. If there is kill it. Then try and set your watchlist and see if it stays around after you restart.
If that doesn’t work, you could try disabling other extensions. Perhaps one of them is causing problems.
November 18th, 2006 at 18:18 GMT
how do you change the color?
November 18th, 2006 at 20:30 GMT
Some of us in the Thunderbird forum have had the same problem when Fox Clocks is installed. We are unable to send email, sometimes restarting Thunderbird helps, but most times it doesn’t. If I disable Fox Clocks I have no problems. It only started with this upgrade. Thanks.
November 18th, 2006 at 22:21 GMT
Great extension! I’ve used it almost from the first version! However, with this latest update, it conflicts with Thunderbird v. 1.5.0.8. For some reason, it blocks outgoing emails.
I started in safe mode and turned on my extensions one by one, and FoxClocks was the culprit. (Not a complaint, just a heads up….I LOVE FoxClocks, and want it back).
If it’s any help, here’s the log from my JavaScript Console:
Error: subject.location has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/foxclocksoverlay.js
Line: 140
Error: subject.location has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/foxclocksoverlay.js
Line: 140
Error: subject.location has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/foxclocksoverlay.js
Line: 140
Error: subject.location has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/foxclocksoverlay.js
Line: 140
I have NO CLUE, if any of that was relevant…grin
Thanks for your hard work to bring us this cool extension!
November 18th, 2006 at 23:26 GMT
bromo - you can configure the colours for a clock by double-clicking on the location in the Watchlist (the right hand side of the main FoxClocks window), and going to the ‘Display’ tab.
Joel and Lori - not good at all. I love Thunderbird, so it bothers me that there’s some kind of problem. Sounds like it’s a FoxClocks bug (those errors you see should not happen, but then they shouldn’t affect Thunderbird functionality either). I’m on it. Any futher details, either here or by e-mail would be really appreciated.
November 19th, 2006 at 00:27 GMT
Andy…email sent. Thanks for the response! Anything I need to do on my end, let me know!
November 19th, 2006 at 06:11 GMT
Hi, Firefox won”t start anymore, I have to delete Foxclocks from the profile to get it running again. The message is something like this: Firefox encountered a problem and has to shut down. After deleting I install ver. 1.7, and no more problems.
November 19th, 2006 at 06:21 GMT
Hi Dieter
Is the problem with FoxClocks 2.0? Did you upgrade FoxClocks from an older version? If you have more details that would be great.
If any extension is causing you problems you can always start in ‘Safe Mode’ - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode . It’s normally not a good idea to manually change/delete files under your profile directory - you can cause Firefox to stop working, except in safe mode.
If you’re in safe mode, you can disable extensions in the ‘Extensions’ window and restart without safe mode to see if your problem is fixed.
Andy
November 19th, 2006 at 08:46 GMT
Generally very good. However, I’ve been in Damascus for the last few weeks and the clock is reading 2 hours later than it should. Have tried to update without success.
November 19th, 2006 at 14:38 GMT
Hi Joe,
Damascus is showing GMT+2 for me, which is correct. Have a look at http://stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-wrongtime and let us know is you’re still having problems.
Andy
November 19th, 2006 at 14:52 GMT
Hi Andy, v2.0 looks great, only I can’t get the new version to appear in my status bar, despite going into options, etc. I’ve uninstalled. reinstalled and restarted to no effect. The previous version was great and working nicely! Can you help me please?
November 19th, 2006 at 14:58 GMT
Hi Ed,
I guess you have your clocks in a toolbar right now. What happens when you go to FoxClocks Options->Position and Style tab->’Display in’ and choose ‘Statusbar’? The clocks don’t move? Have you tried putting the clocks on the left and on the right? I wonder if your other options are working. Oh, and are you using the FoxClocks icon (FoxClocks Options->Position and Style tab->Display as: FoxClocks icon)?
One possibility is that you have another extension in the statusbar that is conflicting with FoxClocks.
Thanks,
Andy
November 19th, 2006 at 15:34 GMT
Hi Andy,
yes, I upgraded from version 1.2.77, which btw is working perfect, to version 2.0.
And thanks for the safe mode tip.
November 19th, 2006 at 15:54 GMT
Hi Dieter,
Sounds like your profile is working fine right now. What you could do is try to upgrade to FC 2.0 again. Hopefully (!) it should work. If it doesn’t work, start in safe mode and uninstall it. It would be great to get to the bottom of this, because eventually 1.2.77 will be out of date. Any information about your OS, language, etc, would be great.
I’d be interested to know how your FoxClocks is configured. If you go to the special URL about:config and filter on ‘foxclocks’, you can see all the FoxClocks settings. Any that are in bold are non-default values. It’s not very easy to export those settings, though: you could take a screenshot, or right-click on each one and ‘Copy Value’…
Andy
November 19th, 2006 at 16:52 GMT
Hi Andy,
I tried both ways, ugrading to version 2.0, faliling to start, same message. I restarted in safe mode, uninstalled Foxclocks, restarted and installed version 2.0, same result.
I’m running winxp, us english. I’m going to prepare a screenshot about the settings, meanwhile I’m sending you the error report from firefox.
I hope, you can understand this.
Regards
November 19th, 2006 at 16:53 GMT
Dieter - great. Thanks.
November 19th, 2006 at 22:08 GMT
Hi Andy, all is well now, thank you - great!
November 20th, 2006 at 00:40 GMT
Hi Andy and ed van nye,
I have the same problem, can not get FC to show up in my statusbar.
How did you guys fix it?
BTW, Andy, great extension, THANKS ALOT!
November 20th, 2006 at 00:58 GMT
Hi there Vas,
Did you try the steps I suggested to Ed? If so, and it doesn’t work, it could be that none of your clocks are configured to show up in the statusbar/toolbar: double-click on a location in the Watchlist (on the right-hand side of the main FoxClocks window) and go to the ‘Display’ tab. There are a couple of checkboxes in the ‘Show/hide clock’ section - make sure there’s a check (tick in British English
) in that box.
Let us know how it works out.
Andy
November 20th, 2006 at 01:19 GMT
Hi Andy, thnaks for quick reply.
I’ve tried everything…..I can not get FC to show up in my statusbar.
November 20th, 2006 at 01:46 GMT
OK, I got it to work now BUT
: ,
part does not work.
November 20th, 2006 at 01:46 GMT
day of the year part does not work
November 20th, 2006 at 03:11 GMT
Vas,
You’re absolutely right. Day of year is broken. Looks like if you use ‘day of year’ in the format for the statusbar and toolbar and restart, you get empty boxes in the statusbar/toolbar. Is that what you were seeing before?
This will be fixed and an update released in the next few days, along with the Thunderbird problem.
Good spot,
Andy
November 20th, 2006 at 05:10 GMT
Thanks for the awesome extension, however, as of the new version 2.0 i cannot access the check box which gives u the option of showing which time zone i want to display in the status bar of Firefox 2.0.
other than that, great extension
November 20th, 2006 at 05:19 GMT
Hi Jason,
You can still decide which clocks to display in the statusbar (and you can also independently choose which clocks to display in the tooltip) by double-clicking on the location in the Watchlist (right-hand side of the main FoxClocks window), and going to the ‘Display’ tab.
Hope that helps,
Andy
November 20th, 2006 at 05:51 GMT
hi Andy
cheers mate, thanks for the tip
works fine now, though the checkbox is more intuitive for newbies i guess !
November 20th, 2006 at 05:52 GMT
Andy, this is a great plugin, which is why I care enough to bother you with my issue instead of just not using it.
I had an issue crop up today where when I start Firefox, it gives me an error dialog that says “Error launching browser window: no XBL binding for browser”. Then it exits.
If I start safe mode and select “Reset Roolbars and Controls”, it will start and run normally. No configuration information is lost, although my toolbars are reset to default configuration.
The reason I suspect FoxClocks is if I uninstall the plugin, the error goes away. Although I admit it could be a bad interaction with my other installed plugins (Forecastfox Enhanced, Download Toolbar, IE Tab and the default Talkback).
Any insight? As I said, I love the plugin, since I have a number of friends across the world. It’s nice to know their local time at a glance. But I don’t want to reset my toolbar every time I start Firefox.
P.S. Tomorrow I can see if it does the same thing to me at work. I have the 2.0 beta version installed there.
November 20th, 2006 at 06:04 GMT
Hi Feathers,
I’m glad that you like FoxClocks enough to bother putting down your problems on (virtual) paper. The one frustrating thing is that I’ve never seen this problem!
Ok, so seems to be an extension that’s causing the problem, or at least a corrupt profile. Googling for “no xbl binding for browser” shows a number of people with this problem - ‘Tab Browser Extensions” seeming to be one guilty party.
I think the best approach is to disable (rather than uninstall) your extensions, perhaps FoxClocks first, to see if you can isolate the problem.
Also, if you could post your Firefox/Thunderbird, FoxClocks and OS versions, that would be great.
I’m happy to take this offline by e-mail if that’s more convenient, but I’ll make sure the solution (there must be a solution!) is posted here.
Andy
November 20th, 2006 at 18:51 GMT
Great add-on! Easy to customize. I work with people around the globe and it is great to see at a glance if they are likely to answer their email immediately or if calling would be rude :>
Thanks!
November 20th, 2006 at 20:04 GMT
Big problem. The time is wrong! I have mine set for Berlin, Auckland, Phoenix and Johannesburg. The Berlin clock says it is 20:04 right now. That is wrong. It is 21:04. Surely someone is going to fix this?
November 20th, 2006 at 20:21 GMT
Hi Andy,
The old way of picking which timezone was displayed in the statusbar was much better IMHO. I only show the timezone that I’m currently in, then mouseover for the complete list of timezones that I keep track of. It was very convenient to be able to change the displayed timezone with just four clicks and one window. You’ve now increased that to ten clicks (if the correct tab is displayed) and three windows, so far as I can see without adding any functionality. The old way I still had control of which clocks were displayed in the tooltip and which were displayed in the statusbar, in a much cleaner and easier interface that took less clicks to use.
Rather than simply changing back to the old interface, perhaps an elegant solution would be to bring back the checkboxes in the timezone list for display in the statusbar (which at least in my usage is dynamic) and leave the “display in tooltip” and other properties in the property window… do any other users change the tooltip frequently?
Rj
November 20th, 2006 at 20:46 GMT
Hey Andy,
yeap, thats what I was seeing before (empty boxes). As soon as i removed ‘day of the year’ all worked fine.
P.S. Great extension, thanks for you work again.
November 20th, 2006 at 21:26 GMT
Shame I upgraded to the new version, FoxClocks has suddenly decided to cease working properly. I fiddled with the whole thing for an hour, that’s enough. I’m going to uninstall the whole thing and turn back to mental arithmetic to tell me the time in Jakarta.
November 20th, 2006 at 21:31 GMT
Trish - thanks!
J Peron - Have a look at http://stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-wrongtime - if you’re still having problems let us know.
Robert - You make a very good point. Removing the checkbox was a trade-off: annoy people such as yourself who like to have most of their clocks in the tooltip, or allow people to sort by location/time (this is a technicality of extension development - it turns out that a checkbox in a sortable table has very unpleasant behaviour at the moment; I spent a long time trying to get it to work reasonably well, without success).
I’d like to reintroduce the checkbox if and when checkboxes in sortable tables are supported properly - the model you suggest is what I had in mind. I suspect not too many people change their tooltip frequency, but it’s very hard to get a good handle on usage patterns. Actually, this thread is proving very useful - perhaps I’ll learn a bit more about what people want.
So if it’s any consolation, I’m aware of the usability issues presented by the new interface…
Vas - great. The problem is fixed, and I’ll roll out an update in a few days. Just goes to show you can never do enough testing.
Andy
November 21st, 2006 at 04:37 GMT
@Andy
I presume you mean auto-sortable because I manually sorted the entries in pre-2.0 Foxclocks by timezone… personally I think having to manually sort is a small price to pay for the checkboxes. Again, it’s my use case, I only ever sorted once but I change timezones all the time.
Rj
November 21st, 2006 at 05:16 GMT
Yes, that’s what I mean. I guess the trade-off is between those who frequently change the list of locations in the Watchlist (and thus want to sort), and those who change the configuration of a (relatively) static list of locations.
As I say, I do plan to bring it back. Perhaps a right-click option would appease you in the interim
November 21st, 2006 at 17:28 GMT
@Andy
I don’t want to promote UI bloat; perhaps it would be better for me to just go back to an older version until the sortable checkboxes issue is sorted out (is there a Mozilla bug that I can track?). If it were easy enough for you to maintain a (hidden) pref to turn off the sortable list and go back to old behaviour would work for me.
Rj
November 21st, 2006 at 17:38 GMT
Hi Robert,
Unfortunately the older versions will start breaking as DST begins/ends next year. That’s a shoddy design decision on my part. Yes you could go back to 1.2.78 for now, though.
I don’t think an extra context menu is over the top, but another option is using Crtl-T or similar to toggle the locations.
Andy
November 21st, 2006 at 18:44 GMT
Andy,
Great program, but I seem to have run into a problem with the newest version. I have Fox Clocks set to show multiple times in the navigation toolbar. However, the icon appers instead and there are no times being displayed. When I hover above it, I receive an extremely small empty box. Also, none of the menu items work when right-clicking on the icon. I can see the menu items, but nothing happens upon clicking them. Double-clicking on the icon also does nothing. I can reach the options menu through the Extensions Manager, but it doesn’t help me with anything. Oh, and one more thing, I can’t place FoxClocks on the statusbar. I was trying that to see if that help with the problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled Foxclocks, reset my cpu, etc, but nothing has worked. Your help would be greatly appreciated since I love this program and would hate to stop using it.
November 21st, 2006 at 18:52 GMT
Hi,
That doesn’t sound good. My first guess would be that you’re using ‘day of year’ in a custom time format. This is broken in FoxClocks 2, unfortunately.
If that’s not the case, you should see some errors in Tools->JavaScript Console (’Error Console’ in Firefox 2.0) - make sure you click on the ‘Errors’ filter at the top. Also, there should be a ‘diagnostics’ message in the ‘Messages’ section - that would be useful information.
Andy
November 21st, 2006 at 19:34 GMT
Andy,
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately it is not a ‘day of year’ error. I don’t have this set. I looked into the error messages, but I’m not sure what everything means. I noticed the following errors that appear to be Foxclocks related:
redeclaration of var IC
fc_gLogger is not defined
scope.clockTooltip has no properties
FoxClocks_openWindow is not defined
FoxClocks_openFoxClocksHomeUrl is not defined
the Messages showed this particular message:
FoxClocks (INFO): FoxClocks_Engine::_init(): diagnostics: FoxClocks version on app , version . Date::toString() reports . Date::getTimezoneOffset() reports
Unfortunately, I’m not sure what any of it means.
November 21st, 2006 at 19:51 GMT
Ok,
Something fundamental has gone wrong. So my next guess is that Firefox’s extension system has hiccoughed. Next thing to try is to shut down your browser (including any FoxClocks windows), go to your profile directory, which should look something like this under Windows:
C:\Documents and Settings\< ***USERNAME***>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\< ***RANDOM_CHARACTERS***>.default
and delete the files xpti.dat and compreg.dat. This is completely safe I promise! (See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder for more details, if you’re interested). Then restart.
Let us know how it goes,
Andy
November 21st, 2006 at 21:36 GMT
Andy,
I tried your suggestions, but unfortunately, they didn’t work. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. By the way, are there any add-ons that FoxClocks will not work with?
November 21st, 2006 at 21:52 GMT
If you could tell us your OS, Firefox/Thunderbird versions, version of FoxClocks you upgraded from (if you know), what language Firefox/Thunderbird is running under, that would be great.
Also if you go to the special url about:config and filter on ‘foxclocks’ you’ll see the FoxClocks parameters - I’d love to know what they are.
And yes, other extensions can cause a problem. One thing to try is to go to Tools->Add-ons or Tools->Extensions, and disable all other extensions (right-click) and restart. If FoxClocks works, you could try re-enabling other extensions one by one to see which is the problem.
One other thing is to uninstall and reinstall FoxClocks again, but after you’ve uninstalled and restarted, make sure there’s nothing in the directory
extensions/{d37dc5d0-431d-44e5-8c91-49419370caa1}
underneath your profile directory.
It also may be that your profile is corrupt, in which case you could follow the instructions here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder#What_do_I_do_if_my_profile_is_corrupted.3F
but that’s something of a last resort.
Andy
November 21st, 2006 at 22:20 GMT
I am using Firefox 2.0 on windows XP pro (SP2). I always keep my extensions up-to-date, so the previous version of Foxclocks was used prior. Firefox is running in the English language. I’ll have to figure out a way to get the parameters posted to you. I am going to try the uninstall of foxclocks now. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try the other suggestions. Hopefully I won’t need to create a new profile.
November 21st, 2006 at 23:34 GMT
Andy…just want to thank you publicly for the great work you’ve been doing to give us our FoxClocks back. It’s funny how we get so attached to a bit of code.
For the rest of you…my problem with FC 2.0 was I couldn’t send emails with TB. I informed Andy here, and he spent three days with me trying to isolate and fix the problem. Many emails later, and the code was fixed, and I’m running with no problems.
So, rest assured that Andy is working hard to fix things…I had one email from him with a date stamp of 3:00 a.m.! Now that’s dedication!
Dude….when do you sleep??
Great work, Andy! All is well in my world now…grin….
November 22nd, 2006 at 04:19 GMT
Andy, I’m not suggesting specifically that an additional context menu *is* bloat, just that you should only do it if you think it makes sense with the sortable checkboxes fixed. I’m a heavy user of the extension and would like that functionality but I realise that I’m not the only type of user that you have.
November 22nd, 2006 at 17:20 GMT
Foxclock 2 in TB always gives dialog ‘View changelog’ prior to TB start. Annoying.
November 22nd, 2006 at 17:30 GMT
Hi Alistair,
That probably means that Thunderbird is not shutting down and thus writing preference changes (e.g. ‘don’t show view changelog’ preference) to disk - there’s a persistent Thunderbird ‘ghost’ process that exists even when Thunderbird seems to have exited.
Assuming you’re running Windows, close down all Thunderbird windows and use the Task Manager to see if there are any stray ‘thunderbird.exe’. If so, kill them, start Thunderbird (you’ll get ‘view changelog’), and shut it down again. This shutdown should be clean (I’d check that with the Task Manager), and your next start-up should be ‘view changelog’-less.
Let us know how you get on,
Andy
November 22nd, 2006 at 18:39 GMT
Andy,
I finally just created a new profile and re-downloaded all the extensions I had. I reinstalled 4 extensions at a time to make it easier to figure out if (and which) extensions may be causing incompatibility issues. Everything works fine now. I assume it was something wrong with my profile. Thanks a million for all your help. I truly appreciate it.
November 22nd, 2006 at 18:44 GMT
Great! I’m really pleased.
Unfortunately, Firefox/Thunderbird profiles do occasionally get into bad states, and there’s not much you can do about it.
Glad I could help out,
Andy
November 22nd, 2006 at 21:44 GMT
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
I had a similar problem with 2.0 working with FF2.0 on my XP systems, while it installed and worked fine on my OS/2 installation. Seeing the comment above profiles, I decided to run MrTech Local Install Repair Extensions option. With it run FC2.0 worked.
I was left with a list of now incompatible extensions. When I made them all compatible, FC2.0 stopped working–so now the problem was related to an old extension.
Repeating the repair, I made the extensions compatible one by one. Finally tracked the problem to one called Page Animation. Checking the extension web site I discovered there was a FF2.0 version which fixed the conflict.
Near as I can tell Foxclock 2.0 was being interpreted by by compatibalized extension as an animation that should be blocked.
Phil
November 22nd, 2006 at 22:18 GMT
Philip,
That’s very good to know - thanks.
November 23rd, 2006 at 16:58 GMT
Re continual “view Changelog” message.
Cheers Andy. You are correct. I should have remembered that the same thing happens with FF with Windows shutdown killing apps and not giving them time to write current settings. I am using the TB Alpha by the way.
November 25th, 2006 at 12:01 GMT
This is great and I have used the extension at work on my windows laptop. However, when I now install it at home under Mac OS X, the change of format to 24h when hovering over the icon in the statusbar does not stick. I can only get it to show am/pm. Is that a known problem?
November 25th, 2006 at 13:22 GMT
I like and use your extension FoxCloxks a lot, but I have the need to know what time it is in San Francisco and in New Delhi. Will you please think about adding these two cities to the next update??
Also I was surprised to learn that Danmarkshavn, Godthåb, Scoresbysund and Thule are parts of America! Will you please think about moving them back to the Atlantic Ocean? I would think both the Greenlandic and the Danish people would like that…
November 25th, 2006 at 16:27 GMT
Roger - no, that’s an unknown problem! Are you sure you have the right thing selected in the ‘Determines how the time is displayed in’ drop-down in the FoxClocks options window? Have a look at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-tooltipformat
Curt - have a look at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-nocity
New Delhi is in the English version; if you’re using another language the Zone Picker is not quite so useful yet.
The classification for Greenland is difficult, but it’s often regarded as being in the Americas (note, not America, which tends to imply the United States).
Andy
November 25th, 2006 at 21:23 GMT
I use custom format on FoxClocks. When I press the “Apply” button nothing happens and I have still the same format on FoxClocks. Why is this? I’ve installed my Firefox now twice, cleaned my computers registry and still this same bug bothers me.
November 25th, 2006 at 21:28 GMT
Hi Tapi,
There are 3 different sets of clocks you can affect when you press apply - make sure you’ve selected the right one. Have a look at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-tooltipformat and let us know if that helped.
By the way, FoxClocks stores its settings like most extensions in the Firefox/Thunderbird preferences system, not in the registry.
Thanks,
Andy
November 25th, 2006 at 21:42 GMT
Great extension, but I downloaded the update (2.0.19) and the format of time and day cannot be changed on the statusber. When viewing the tooltip, it does change.
November 25th, 2006 at 22:29 GMT
Hi Addas,
I think you’re having the same issue as Tapi above.
Andy
November 26th, 2006 at 08:30 GMT
Hello Andy,
Love FoxClocks - works fine for me. Has there been any thought to incorporating a time update into Fox Clocks that would correct the computer’s time whenever FF was opened, or at specified intervals? I know there are clock utils around, but it kind of makes sense to incorporate a time update into an existing utility rather than run yet another task.
Regards
PF
November 26th, 2006 at 13:08 GMT
Andy
Spent 2 hours hunting around for an international clock on the web and hummed and hawed about many, but they were all either a bit clunky, or sat on the desktop or you had to open a pop- up: they didn’t just sit there unobtrusively, available at a glance. Then had the bright idea of checking the FireFox add ons and discovered FoxClocks. Download was as simple as pie and the application has worked like a dream since I loaded it. It’s minimalist presence on the browser is the main selling point for me.
Thanks so much for all your hard work on this. A GREAT little app.
PEB
November 26th, 2006 at 16:43 GMT
Peter - I must admit that I’ve been looking for an excuse not to do this, and I’ve just found one! It seems that Mozilla framework on which FoxClocks is based (”XPCOM”) doesn’t provide a way to modify the system clock. So at best FoxClocks might be able to warn the user that their clock is wrong.
More generally, though (and this probably underlies the above), modifying the system time is a privileged operation (although that’s generally not clear on Windows since most people run as administrator).
Also, most (all?) modern OS’s have an automated mechanism for synching their time with a remote computer using NTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol), which is a clever protocol, and not easy to implement.
I hope I’ve let myself of the hook there!
PEB - thank you very much! I agree that FoxClocks’ main attribute is that it’s unobtrusive; there are quite a lot of standalone apps out there that take up far too much real estate.
Andy
November 26th, 2006 at 17:13 GMT
This is a great extension… I would just like to suggest one feature if possible… ability to sync the home clock with an atomic clock somewhere.
I saw this on an old and no longer available clock program that was similar to foxclocks (But nowhere near as inobtrusive! Yay for foxclocks!) and found it really useful.
Thank you for building this.
~Confused.Brit~
November 26th, 2006 at 22:58 GMT
I updated the clock today and now all settings are gone………..
November 26th, 2006 at 23:09 GMT
Hi Ashley,
Can you describe your problem a bit more? Are you running FoxClocks 2.0.19 or FoxClocks 2.0? If you’re running FoxClocks 2.0, upgrading should fix your problem. If you’re running FoxClock 2.0.19 and you’re still having problems, can you go to (Firefox/Thunderbird) Tools->Error Console (or JavaScript console) and click on ‘All’, and look for an entry that starts ‘FoxClocks (INFO): DIAGNOSTICS:’. If you right-click on that you can copy the text - I’d love to know what it says.
Andy
November 26th, 2006 at 23:58 GMT
Like I mentioned, I upgraded today. Obviously to the latest verion. I checked and indeed the version now is 2.0.19
I found three remarks:
Error: Components.classes[’@stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/zonemanager;1′] has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/common.js
Line: 27
—————————–
Error: fc_gLogger has no properties
Source File: chrome://foxclocks/content/foxclocksoverlay.js
Line: 32
——————————
Error: clocks is not defined
Source File: javascript: clocks
Line: 1
——————————–
Obviously I understand that no clocks are defined any longer, but I did NOT uninstall them and also I cannot REinstall them for all options are empty……….
November 27th, 2006 at 00:43 GMT
Ashley,
Do you have any error messages before the ones you posted?
Two things I can think of to try:
1. Delete xpti.dat and compreg.dat as described here: http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/news/2006/11/17/foxclocks-20/#comment-46 - it could be that Firefox/Thunderbird has ended up in a bad state.
2. (I wouldn’t recommend this until we’ve exhausted other possibilities, or you don’t mind losing your FoxClocks settings.) Reset all FoxClocks parameters to their default values by going to the special URL about:config and filtering on ‘foxclocks’ (lower case), then right-clicking on each bolded option and choosing ‘reset’ (the non-bolded options are already at their default value). Then restart.
Andy
November 27th, 2006 at 08:42 GMT
I uninstalled FoxClocks, reinstalled version 2.0 and all settings came back as I used to have. So all old setting were NOT disrupted.
Again updated to version 2.0.19
This time all my settings came back after restart.
Problem solved.
For me it’s solved. If you still need additional info, please let me know !!!
Andy, THANKS for thinking with me, and hey, it’s a GREAT extension !!
November 27th, 2006 at 15:55 GMT
I’m very glad to hear it worked out!
December 4th, 2006 at 15:35 GMT
Hello,
Loved your extension. There is a huge bug in it though. The times for the time zones in the US are off by an hour. I guess this has to do with DST not being set correctly. Hopefully, this can be fixed pretty quickly and easily. Do fix it as soon as possible, I would like to keep using this extension and be able to trust it.
Amol.
December 4th, 2006 at 15:54 GMT
Hi Amol,
Have a look at http://stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-wrongtime and let us know how it works out.
Andy
December 4th, 2006 at 16:23 GMT
That worked it out, sorry. I jumped the gun. Thanks!
December 5th, 2006 at 11:36 GMT
Great extension but doesn’t work with Sunbird 0.3a2, can you please fix that?
December 5th, 2006 at 16:42 GMT
Hi Mike,
That’s odd - it does work in Sunbird 0.3, but I know Sunbird version numbers work differently than Firefox/Thunderbird.
Also, I tend not to support alphas, and rarely support betas, because it involves more testing, and because apparent FoxClocks problems may be issues with the underlying application.
Andy
December 5th, 2006 at 23:11 GMT
Since Sunday Dec. 3rd Perth (West Australia) has DST. This is the first time after 30 years and is a pilot for a few years.
December 6th, 2006 at 15:56 GMT
Hi Buick,
If you have automatic updates enabled, FoxClocks deals with WA DST.
Andy
December 9th, 2006 at 11:09 GMT
Just a request to change Perth Western Australia to daylight saving. We belatedly moved to daylight saving on the 3rd December 2006. The clocks went forward 1 hour to bring the business community into line a little3 more with the Eastern side of Australia. It is a 3 year trial.
Regards
Jan
December 16th, 2006 at 00:44 GMT
I am trying to delete the foxclocks from my system, how do I do it?
December 16th, 2006 at 06:39 GMT
Hi Serita,
You can uninstall FoxClocks just like other extensions. Go to Tools->Add-ons (or Tools->Extensions), click on FoxClocks, and then click on ‘Uninstall’.
Andy
December 19th, 2006 at 02:27 GMT
Thank you Andy, I appreciate your help.
December 20th, 2006 at 03:25 GMT
When I can get following updates
# Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes for Australia (2006), United States (2007), and Others
# Time-Zone Changes for Western Australia Begin December 3, 2006
December 20th, 2006 at 03:31 GMT
Hi Sudheer,
If you have automatic updates enabled (FoxClocks Options->Time Zone Data tab) you’ll get the change for Western Australia.
US/Canadian changes for 2007 will also be updated before DST comes into effect.
December 24th, 2006 at 14:09 GMT
Hi There,
I do not know if the bug has been reported yet, but it doesn’t seem like.
There is a bug when resizing the window using the bottom-right grip: the window does not follow the mouse correctly, and the window “wiggles” strangely. This happens on both Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.1, and on different computers (different mouse drivers and graphic cards).
But thanks for the great extension! Keep on the great work!
Sincerely, ABE Lyu
January 1st, 2007 at 06:10 GMT
I need update for Perth, WA DST but Database update reports ‘error - try again later’ (I’ve tried manually several times). Is this a known / temporary problem?
January 2nd, 2007 at 18:48 GMT
Hi Ali,
Thanks for letting me know. This should be fixed now.
Andy
January 3rd, 2007 at 08:14 GMT
Could you make customizable not only the location color, but also font?
So that it would be possible not only to set alternate color, but also to set alternate font - Bold and/or Underline.
January 5th, 2007 at 00:07 GMT
I have installed FoxClocks in Firefox but how do I get it to work in Thunderbird? I tried to download the program so that I could try and install it but the right click to download feature wouldn’t work! I am using XP Home.
January 7th, 2007 at 16:31 GMT
I just discovered this add-on, it should be part of the recommended add-ons from mozilaa its so cool and useful.
one thing though. i dont have much space on my status bar as the weather is also displayed there. can the clocks not be set as an auto-hidable toolbar? ive added the clocks to my all-in-one-sidebar extension but i have to keep it as an icon as if i display the clocks, its hows them all in one line which makes internet browsing impossible. I dont know if this is a big, but it would make sense to list the clocks vertically on a vertical toolbar?
Great work though, i’ll wait for a newer version hoping that the location features are slightly improved…
January 7th, 2007 at 22:16 GMT
FoxClocks is right on Time !! Fantastic add-on!
Sam
January 9th, 2007 at 17:34 GMT
@Dmitri - I guess it seemed like a fairly obscure option, and I didn’t want to clutter up the interface. I may add it if I can present it nicely, or hide it in about:config.
@Toby - If you right-click on the ‘install now’ link at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1117/ you should get a context menu with the option to save the file. (If you don’t get a context menu, there’s something strange about your PC’s configuration and there’s not much I can do). Then save that to the desktop (for example). Then open the Extensions window in Thunderbird with Tools->Extensions or Tools->Add-ons. You can now drag and drop the ‘xpi’ file you downloaded to your desktop onto this window to begin the installation. Hope that helps.
@Imran - interesting comments. I had never thought about showing clocks vertically. The idea of the ‘icon mode’, of course, is to save space in the statusbar/toolbar. You could have the icon in the statusbar if you want. As for the auto-hideable toolbar, I’ve never actually seen a true toolbar auto-hide, and I’m not sure it’s possible. One option, if you want to see the clocks rather than the icon, is to add a new toolbar: right-click on e.g. the ‘home’ button and choose ‘customise’ then click the ‘Add new toolbar button’ and drag the FoxClocks clocks onto this new toolbar (you need to be in ‘toolbar mode’ in FoxClocks). The cool thing is that the new toolbar is very slim - doesn’t take too much space.
@S.A. Mills - thanks!
Andy
January 13th, 2007 at 16:50 GMT
Great extension! It’s practically essential.
One problem I’ve noticed is that when used under WinXP along with FoxForecast, resizing of the Firefox window is affected. Try to drag a Firefox window smaller or larger when these two extensions are running, and the window’s corner moves only half as quickly as the mouse pointer. I think it might have something to do with both extensions jockeying for the last position on the status bar or something like that.
January 15th, 2007 at 23:01 GMT
Hi. Nice extension — I’m always doing time zone math incorrectly and this will help! One minor issue: I’ve added six locations to my Watchlist, but when I hover over the icon in my status bar, only four are displayed (the first three and the last one). Any idea what’s up?
January 15th, 2007 at 23:05 GMT
Hmm, I seem to have solved my own problem. The two entries on my Watchlist that wouldn’t display when hovering were part of the default set (UK and US Pacific). I deleted them and then added them again and now I see all the entries on my Watchlist.
January 16th, 2007 at 05:04 GMT
@ g.sprog - It could be that you were experimenting with the settings of the default locations’ settings at one point. By default, all locations in the Watchlist show up in the statusbar/toolbar (if you’re in ‘icon mode) and when you hover over the clocks/icon. You can change these settings by double-clicking on a location and going to the ‘Display’ tab.
Andy
January 16th, 2007 at 11:57 GMT
Foxclocks is the best in its genre and an essential tool for most users I would have thought. One request I have is to be able to display the week number. My prospective career frequently refers to what week number in the year it is and this would be useful to have alongside the time and date. Thanks for your efforts, developers like yourself make firefox twice the browser.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:15 GMT
Thanks so much for this extension. I work internationally (dozens of countries) and when I’m not traveling, someone else on my team is. It is such a brainsaver to be able to tell at a glance what time it is wherever my team or distant counterparts may be. I especially appreciate the ease of changing which locations show and which are on the list, and the ability to customize the named/displayed location for a time zone.
Thanks. Thanks very much.
January 19th, 2007 at 00:33 GMT
FoxClocks 2.0 is not compatible with Thunderbird 2 beta 2. It was compatible with Thunderb ird 2 beta 1.
January 24th, 2007 at 17:49 GMT
@Nick - thanks! FoxClocks really should do week number, but it’s actually a remarkably complex issue - there are numerous definitions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#Week_number , for example.
@beachrat - thanks! It’s nice to know there’s some usability there
@Mike - when b2 is officially released, FoxClocks will be updated for it, but at the moment, there are only b2 release candidates.
January 27th, 2007 at 17:42 GMT
great add-on beats microsoft’s clock! What’s the code I need to show gmt + for the different cities i have programed in the personal format options for the clock???
thanks
January 27th, 2007 at 20:49 GMT
@Christopher - thanks! In the FoxClocks Options window, on the Time Format tab, you could use a format string something like:
<l>: <12h>:<m> <am>, <d-s> (GMT<o>)
which would show, for example,
Toronto: 3:27 pm, Sat (GMT-05:00)
You can either enter this format string directly into the box labelled ‘Format:’, or you can build it using the buttons and dropdown menus just above the box; you’ll find ‘GMT offset’ under the ‘Others’ section.
Be careful, though: the above format string is English-specific (in English, <o> means timezone offset; in French it’s <h>, for example). You can use the buttons and dropdown menus whatever language you’re using.
In writing this I’ve just realised that there’s no option to show (e.g.) GMT-5, rather than GMT-05:00. Something for the next version…
Hope that helps. Let us know if you’re still having problems.
Andy
January 27th, 2007 at 23:10 GMT
thanks andy,
i use the formatting line and skip the drop down stuff. Works great! I like the +01:00 format better than simply +1 so don’t worry about changing it. The fact that I can enter any text string I want, like vive la france! is a great chareteristic of the program also.
christopher
January 29th, 2007 at 13:21 GMT
Hi Folks,
first of all: cool gadget, very useful. For some reasons, my tooltips tend to stay visible even I move the mouse away. I have tried removing all Clocks from the tooltip, but now a (no locations selected) is visible most of the time.
Is that a firefox problem or is it caused by FoxClocks?
Cheers
Daniel
February 5th, 2007 at 00:22 GMT
Hi Daniel,
Sounds to me like a Firefox problem - FoxClocks doesn’t do anything special with tooltips. You could hover your mouse over the ‘Refresh’ button and see if that tooltip behaves in the same way; obviously if it does the problem is with your Firefox install.
Let us know how you get on,
Andy
February 7th, 2007 at 15:08 GMT
Hi Andy,
I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem with the original firefox buttons. The other areas in the status bar (FasterFox, AdBlock) seem to be working fine as well, but then again, they are on the right hand side so my mouse doesn’t go past there that often…
You think I should ask the FireFox people about the problem?
Cheers
Daniel
February 14th, 2007 at 19:10 GMT
Hi there,
Nice and cool add-on but I would suggest one thing, you should provide a analog clock display instead of a globe image for this add-on. It would definitely increase its worth. Moreover there should be a facility to map that analog clock display to any one of the preselected time zones.
Cheers
Tamoor
February 15th, 2007 at 14:56 GMT
Hi Tamoor,
I like your idea, but I would have thought an analog display would need to be quite large to be legible.
Andy
February 15th, 2007 at 19:37 GMT
Very Nice Add-on, Thanks. It would be really nice if you would support the alternate color in both the tooltip and watchlist so we can quickly see what areas of the world are in a calling window. I can put some but not all in my status bar. Thanks for the consideration.
Lloyd..
February 16th, 2007 at 11:37 GMT
Hi
I click on uninstall to uninstall FoxClocks Extra: Ashes 2006-7 1.16.
I am notified that this add-on will be uninstalled when Firefox is restarted.
When I close Firefox or even reboot my comp. the add-on is still installed. It will not uninstall please help.
Roman
February 16th, 2007 at 16:50 GMT
Hi Roman,
Very strange. The uninstall process is out of my hands. Other people have reported the same issue. Here’s how one of them removed FoxClocks Ashes:
“I disabled Foxclocks then uninstalled the Extra. When I re-opened Firefox the extra was gone. I then re-enabled Foxclocks.”
Hope that helps,
Andy
February 16th, 2007 at 16:51 GMT
@Lloyd - good point. The tricky part is keeping the user interface clean. I’ll put it on the list.
Andy
February 18th, 2007 at 18:52 GMT
when i start FireFox a notice to uninstall ashes 2006-7, i cannot find a way to uninstall!! i like FireFox but this is annoying.
February 19th, 2007 at 15:44 GMT
Regarding Daniel’s tooltip problem above, FoxClocks does do something ‘funny’ with its tooltip: it uses ‘noautohide’ functionality to stop the tooltip from disappearing after a second or two. The tooltip should disappear as soon as you move your pointer away, though, but for some people it doesn’t.
If you’re having this problem, please let us know here (extension conflict perhaps?). You can stop the tooltip from displaying at all by adding the line
#foxclocksoverlay-clock-tooltip { display: none !important; }
to your userChrome.css file.
For technical details on ‘noautohide’ see here.
February 21st, 2007 at 15:27 GMT
If you’re having this problem, please let us know here (extension conflict perhaps?). You can stop the tooltip from displaying at all by adding the line
#foxclocksoverlay-clock-tooltip { display: none !important; }
Thank you very much, Andy. I was going to ask how to disable it. And I had the same problem as Daniel did.
February 22nd, 2007 at 23:38 GMT
I installed Fox Clocks to keep track of the Ashes Cricket tests in Australia. Now that the series has finished, I keep getting a notice everytime I start Firefox, telling me that the series has finished, and I should remove these items from my list. I have done this but the notice still pops up EVERYTIME!!!!. How can I uninstall fox clocks, then reinstall it without this problem
February 22nd, 2007 at 23:40 GMT
I installed Fox Clocks to keep track of the Ashes Cricket tests in Australia. Now that the series has finished, I keep getting a notice everytime I start Firefox, telling me that the series has finished, and I should remove these items from my list. I have done this but the notice still pops up EVERYTIME!!!!. How can I uninstall fox clocks, then reinstall it without this problem
February 24th, 2007 at 01:31 GMT
Hello,
I LOVE foxclocks, but I am also unable to uninstall the Ashes Cricket addon.
Can someone please help?
Wayne …
February 24th, 2007 at 11:37 GMT
Hi there, my about config is determined to keep extensions auto update on off or false regardless of the choice in the regular interface. I notice also in the replies in Mozzila’s site, for other people it stays on true the reverse option.
Very nice extension.
February 24th, 2007 at 13:48 GMT
Hi Andy, I\’ve just downloaded v 2.0.20 and all the US and other cities west of London have disappeared from my zone picker. My choices east of London remain, but with no information on other eastern zones. I tried deleting and reloading to no avail. Can you help me with this please? Thanks, Ed
February 24th, 2007 at 16:13 GMT
Hi,
In the last couple of versions, my foxclocks has lost its ability to display times of any city. (Uninstalling/reinstalling foxclocks did not solve the issue)
The space on the right of the “help” menu was supposed to display the NewYork time while the tooltip was supposed to show times for the other cities). This is what I get now (just blank):
img92.imageshack.us/img92/7782/clipboard1np0.png
February 24th, 2007 at 20:57 GMT
i like that extension
February 26th, 2007 at 09:54 GMT
Hi Andy
Thanks for the reply (Feb 16th 2007) about uninstalling the FoxClock ashes.
“I disabled Foxclocks then uninstalled the Extra. When I re-opened Firefox the extra was gone. I then re-enabled Foxclocks.”
Since I did this my FoxClocks lost all of its Time Zones in Zone Picker.
Looks like the database is missing.
I uninstalled FoxClocks and reinstalled it but no success so how do I fix this.
Roman
February 26th, 2007 at 14:50 GMT
We’re addressing the above problems off-line via e-mail - so far no concrete bugs have surfaced, but you never know…
Andy
February 26th, 2007 at 19:43 GMT
Have you considered adding a few *virtual* timezones?
I’m specifically thinking of the timezones as exist in some of the MMORPGs such as EVE-ONLINE (UT) and Second Life (PST without summer, I think). There are probably others too. Likewise that “internet” digital time that was around a while and provided some useful cross-continental synchronisation.
February 26th, 2007 at 20:06 GMT
Hmm. I’ve come across people using FoxClocks for gaming purposes, but GMT/UTC seemed to do the trick for them; virtual time zones hadn’t really occurred to me.
Obviously if a real-world time zone corresponds to a virtual one, you could just rename it, but your PST without summer-time example doesn’t correspond to any time zone that appears in FoxClocks Zone Picker. (There’s a way to hack your preferences to get it though…) I’ll put it on the list, but unfortunately it’s quite a long list.
FoxClocks is pretty flexible about adding new time formats, but I’m very reluctant to add Swatch Internet time; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time#Criticisms summarises a few of the reasons. I’d add that it basically serves as a marketing tool for Swatch.
February 27th, 2007 at 08:03 GMT
I’d like to have Barcelona in the list of Cities
February 27th, 2007 at 15:14 GMT
I installed this extension into Sunbird. It always starts 2 windows. I like the extension so I just close one, but was wondering if you were planning to address this issue. Running Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2
February 27th, 2007 at 15:21 GMT
@alex - yes, I think Barcelona should be there.
@Tammy - can you give us some more information - versions of FoxClocks/Sunbird, and which windows are popping up? A screenshot would be great.
Andy
February 28th, 2007 at 01:23 GMT
Hi,
Love your add-on. Very handy. ANy plans to include ICAO time zones? These are used in aviation and are just the form of letters. So GMT= \’Z\’ or Zulu time. I live in eastern Australia. Our time zone is \’K\’ (GMT+10) in winter and \’L\’ (GMT+9) in summer.
March 1st, 2007 at 03:42 GMT
Andy:
Oh my goodness! I am so sorry. It seems that it was another extension that was causing the problem. I do love this product, GREAT JOB!!! PS: The email address I used which seemed to be iffy was one I created to forestall all the junkmail I seem to get whenever I post my email address anywhere. Sorry for the confusion, I do get the mail at that address, just not the first thing I look at if you know what I mean.
March 1st, 2007 at 09:49 GMT
I have an idea for you - could one have the phase of the moon available?
I know some people laugh at it, but I am very involved with wine - and so many knowledgeable, sensible, experienced winegrowers and winemakers take the moon very seriously.
Just a little picture of the actual phase would be super!
Thank you - also for Foxclocks, which is SO helpful, especially since an improvement several months ago. There had been problems with GMT.
March 1st, 2007 at 14:12 GMT
@Darren - ICAO time zones. Hmm. I’d have to be convinced - I can’t really see how they’d be useful for us terrestrial browser-users.
@Tammy - not a problem!
@Alan - check out ‘Sun Cult’ - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1915/ - which does exactly what you want.
Andy
March 1st, 2007 at 21:30 GMT
Hi,
I operate a squillion browser sessions simultaneously among other things, frequently moving between applications (right now I have twenty nine apps in my task bar). What I\’ve found is that as I\’m using the mouse to navigate between apps, when I click back to a firefox session in the task bar and then move the mouse up from the task bar, through the status bar, and into the selected firefox session, the tooltip will display even though I haven\’t paused on the status bar - just passed through it. The tooltip then stays displayed (Daniel\’s problem from above I guess).
Once I\’m in the firefox session I can wave the mouse over the status bar willy nilly and it won\’t bring up the tooltip unless I pause (as expected). It only seems to happen when the window first gets focus.
Other than that, foxclocks is a cracker! Especially for my situation working in a global support organisation with customers from around the world.
Lachlan
March 2nd, 2007 at 14:51 GMT
Great add-on. We have worldwide sales of our industrial food processing equipment and representatives in several countries. FoxClocks allow men to know the date and time are when I am sending messages or calling them.
Even helps with domestic (USA) representatives and customers since it is difficult to remember their time zones or know whether they comply with Daylight Savings Time or not.
Thanks for all the improvements!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 20:46 GMT
Hi! Just want to say thank you for this great add-on. I could not live without it. I have to work with deadlines in different time zones and it is very useful to have them all available to look at on Thunderbird as well as Firefox. Works great! Thanks again!
March 3rd, 2007 at 05:58 GMT
@Lachlan - I’m guessing that your task-bar doesn’t auto-hide. I’ve seen the tooltips do strange things on occasion, but it’s hard to pin down, and I can’t reproduce the behaviour from your description.
@everyone - thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated. I’m glad that FoxClocks is proving to be genuinely useful.
Andy
March 4th, 2007 at 21:09 GMT
Andy,
Nope, my toolbar doesn\’t autohide.
Try this:
1. Open two firefox sessions, give focus to session 1
2. change focus from session 1 to session two by clicking on the second session in the taskbar
3. move the mouse into session 2\’s window, passing through the foxclocks display -> tooltip shows for me
4. move mouse in and out of session 2\’s window -> tooltips don\’t show unless you pause
This \
March 4th, 2007 at 21:11 GMT
Hmm - from that last posting I know it looks like operator error, but it isn\’t.
What I wanted to add is that this happens whether the firefox sessions are maximised or not.
BUT what I\’ve only just realised is that it ONLY happens when switching between firefox sessions, not from another app to firefox.
Lachlan
March 6th, 2007 at 11:02 GMT
Hi!
After updating to 2.0.20 I see the time zone picker, so I can’t pick one zone and don’t see one time?
Using firefox 2.0.0.2, XP.
Uninstalling and installing many times did not help.
Michael
March 6th, 2007 at 11:03 GMT
Hi
I meant I don’t see the time tone picker, window b oth sides are empty.
Michael
March 6th, 2007 at 14:35 GMT
Hi Michael,
Could you have a look at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-diagnostics - sounds like there should be some errors showing up in the ‘Error Console’.
Thanks,
Andy
March 9th, 2007 at 03:49 GMT
Great extension. I love it. As a pilot I\’m looking at lots of UTC weather reports so it\’s nice to have multiple time zones available.
Feature request: It would be nice to be able to apply a DIFFERENT format to each clock. I.e. on my local clock, I like date, time (with seconds) and dont need time zone; On my UTC clock HH:MM UTC is all I want.
Local Clock :: —
UTC Clock :
Thanks
Todd
March 9th, 2007 at 14:03 GMT
Todd,
Agreed. Per-clock formats are very high on the list. (By the way, it seems that Wordpress doesn’t like the ‘less than’ and ‘greater than’ signs in the format strings you posted - I’ll have to look into that.)
Andy
March 9th, 2007 at 20:47 GMT
Great Ads On. Loads of options and works unobtrusively in the background. Useful for those of us working across multiple timezones. Thanks guys.
Phil
March 9th, 2007 at 23:24 GMT
Doesn’t work in linux (Ubuntu)
March 9th, 2007 at 23:40 GMT
Hi Nick,
Do you have any details? It works fine under Ubuntu 6.10 for me.
Andy
March 11th, 2007 at 09:08 GMT
Do you know why my time didn’t update properly after DST in the US? It says the time in New York is 6:07, when it is really 5:07.
March 11th, 2007 at 14:23 GMT
While Win XP never updated the Daylight Savings thing on any of my PC’s last night (wonderful…), FoxClocks is doing something strange. It’s displaying a time that’s one hour ahead of my PC’s clock. Which at the moment makes it the right time, but what happens when I finally get my PC straightened out and FoxClocks shows a time one hour ahead of the actual time?
March 11th, 2007 at 14:40 GMT
*** TO THOSE EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH 2007 DST ***
First, please ensure you’re running the latest version of FoxClocks (curently 2.0.20).
From the FoxClocks FAQ:
—-
FoxClocks relies on your system’s time and time zone. If your system clock is correct, but FoxClocks is wrong, verify that your time zone is correctly configured. If you’re still having problems, make sure that you are running the latest version of FoxClocks - the version number is visible at the bottom-right of the main FoxClocks window.
—-
Since people in North America are experiencing early DST this year, it’s quite likely that your system’s time/time zone are wrong. If these are correct, FoxClocks 2.0.20 WILL work correctly.
If you’re convinced that your system is right, but that FoxClocks has it wrong, please contact us, including your current location and the FoxClocks diagnostics message described at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-diagnostics.
Andy
March 11th, 2007 at 16:02 GMT
I checked with Win Update and my system has the new DS update installed, but it’s not working. I then switched my time zone from Eastern Time to Atlantic Time to reflect the 1 hour difference and the time seems to be correct now in both the system and FoxClock. It’s still strange nonetheless…
March 11th, 2007 at 17:27 GMT
I was wrong. Resetting the time zone only created other problems. Now along with the FoxClock issue, my PDA and Outlook won’t properly sync appointments for this week (or any other future occurrence during this week in March). I can either change them on the PDA or in Outlook, but the changes create problems in the other app.
Just who thought up this cockamamie DS change?!
Thanks for the help, Andy. I’m sure that things will clear up at my end as soon as I figure out how to trigger the DS update on my PC. Running the update manually only generates a message that it’s already installed.
Nuts…
March 11th, 2007 at 21:53 GMT
YOu guys haven’t corrected for American Daylight Savings Time shifted ahead this year by 3 weeks.
March 11th, 2007 at 21:54 GMT
latest version, system time EST, FoxClocks time 1 hour ahead, FoxClock shows correct time in Database Updates/Time Zone Data tab
March 12th, 2007 at 06:35 GMT
Had trouble with DST on my w98se machine. A fix is to find zonemanager.js in windows/application data/mozilla/firefox … and open it with a text editor (you will probably have to specify open all file types - the .js file is text). Replace the line
return (this.dl_start_gmt
March 13th, 2007 at 08:03 GMT
micro$oft patch + time synchro + FoxClocks database update =
March 13th, 2007 at 14:51 GMT
I noticed that the keyboard shortcut to activate FoxClocks on Mac is the same one used to log out (Shift-Command-Q). Could you change this to avoid confusion? Other than that, great extension!
March 13th, 2007 at 16:10 GMT
Please remove the “Are you sure” message that pops up when I click to remove a time from the displayed list. Yes, I am sure — that’s why I clicked. And even if I made a mistake, it’s fewer clicks to correct the mistake than to endlessly confirm that I want to do what I said I wanted to do. Thanks.
March 13th, 2007 at 19:52 GMT
Open Source database problem with Miami- Florida…
Hey, not that I am a Miami fan (though I would love to live there)…
But, is there any reason for not counting with the State of Florida in every OpenSource database?
Try finding: Tallahasse or Georgia or Miami…
Is there another way of searching for these places?
Were those OpenSource databases built during the 19th. century?
Is it because their wrong political opinions?
Besides, good job with these clocks.
Would you add some color to each clock’s background?
And, to the tips’ summary?
Wouldn’t it be nice to see some analog clock icons really spinning?
Thank you for your patience.
alberto
March 13th, 2007 at 20:08 GMT
Hello, again!
Since my country doesn\’t have to make that season time changes, I could help others to configure these clocks all right…
After you have your local computer clock working with the correct time, you should configure FoxClocks. You should choose the timezone of your normal time, not this summer timezone, ok? That is, when you are configuring a place not in the database…
Another idea that I would like to freely share is: why not taking the UTC time from an atomic clock instead of from the local time? You should only take the local timezone from the local time, but not the perhaps, unsynchronized time. That would bring this pluggin the most possible accuracy. Don\’t you think so?
And the atomic time might only be provided when the pluggin starts. There could also be a message telling us that our local clock is not on time…
Hope that it helps!
alberto
March 13th, 2007 at 20:24 GMT
I have same problem with FoxClocks 2.0.20 showing 1 hour ahead, even thought I have updated the system time manually.
I tinker around with install/reinstall FoxClock, toggling off this and that options without any success.
Finally I just redo the whole DST update systematically as follows:
- Uninstall FoxClocks
- Install patches from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone.mspx
- In the system Date & Time application, make sure system time is correct, timezone is correct, toggle on option \
March 13th, 2007 at 20:26 GMT
(continue…)
.. toggle on option Automatically adjust clock daylight saving change
- reboot Windows
- reinstall FoxClocks 2.0.20
It works!
Hope that helps.
Nathan
March 14th, 2007 at 01:14 GMT
I\’m running your nifty FoxClocks on my Mac with OSX 10.4.9, but I cannot find the Google Earth button, nor can I find the alternative color button as shown in the help section. Am I missing something, or are those features unavailable for Macs? Right now, I have 5 times listed in a menu bar, and two of them are red, 3 in black. I cannot figure out how to change the colors. Thanks for your help
March 14th, 2007 at 10:05 GMT
This is a great extension! However, I am used to 24h time formats. When I go into the options and change to the Option/Time Format and change it, nothing the format is still AM/PM even though everything seems correct. I have noticed in the Custom Format choices, even though I change the Hours: to 24-hour, upon closing and reopening, it has changed back to 12-hour.
March 15th, 2007 at 09:15 GMT
It\’s me again. I installed this yesterday as I mentioned in my previous post. I noticed today that all my city changes reverted back to the default set-up. I checked the FAQ and saw the suggestion about the ghost application. I shutdown FireFox, and checked the running apps but did not see any FF ghost app. It seemed that FF closed completely which must\’ve been the case since my new city change stayed this time. It seems, at least with me, this only happens when I log-off from the network server.
March 15th, 2007 at 14:33 GMT
Hi Rex,
For your first issue, have a look at http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/#FAQ-tooltipformat - I would guess you’re changing the format for the wrong type of clock.
For your second issue, if there’s no ghost process, Firefox seems not to be exiting cleanly. FoxClocks - like other extensions - makes use of the Firefox(/Thunderbird/Sunbird) preferences system to store its settings - changes to these settings seem to be cached in memory until Firefox exits, at which point they’re written to disk - unless of course Firefox doesn’t exit cleanly, in which case the settings changes you made during that session will be lost. This would apply to any other preference changes you made during your session, not just FoxClocks settings.
If you successfully changed your home page, for example, and the change ’stuck’ during a restart while FoxClocks settings were lost, that would indicate a problem with FoxClocks.
You mention a network server - if your Firefox profile is stored remotely, I can imagine this causing problems in some case.
Hope that makes some sense.
Andy
March 16th, 2007 at 06:26 GMT
I have tried to d’load foxclocks 2 but i just keep getting an error message saying there’s a wrong hash somewhere.
Can you help?
March 16th, 2007 at 17:04 GMT
hi there , since the change in the states my times for england are incorrect and i dont see anywhere i can correct it. the time for england is one hour to ahead of what the actual time in england . min other words it is giving me the european time for england . can i fix this?
March 18th, 2007 at 04:29 GMT
The fox clock does not show the daylight savings updates…
I have set up clocks for UK and India, it showed the time correctly before the Day light savings was applied. Now it shows an hours ahead to the correct time, I had to manually updated the DLT on my PC.
FYI: this addon is excellant and very useful tool for me ….
Thanks!
March 21st, 2007 at 04:14 GMT
Fox Clocks 2.0.20
FireFox 2.0.0.2
Sunbird 0.3.1
Windoze XP SP2
Great addon. I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’m using it in FireFox. Helpfull because I have to do a lot of time conversions for Webcasts I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’m viewing that are not in my timezone.
Installed cleanly into FireFox.
When I tried to install into Sunbird had problems.
- SunBird forced me to save install file, rather than loading like FireFox (I assume this is a SunBird issue)
- when I tried to load the addon into SunBird from the addon dialog, it abended Sunbird. Error message:
Appname Sunbird.exe AppVer 0.3.1.0 ModName: msvcr80.dll ModVer 8.0.50727.42 Offset 000176d9
March 21st, 2007 at 06:33 GMT
my version od fox clocks doesn’t display the zone picker. it wont let me select any new time zones.
March 21st, 2007 at 06:41 GMT
if anyone knows what the problem is please let me know. the add on was working previously b4 i upgraded to 2.0
March 21st, 2007 at 06:42 GMT
if anyone knows what the problem is please let me know.
March 23rd, 2007 at 01:15 GMT
Can you please include the capital of australia Canberra thanks
March 23rd, 2007 at 16:45 GMT
Thank you for a terrific add-on! I work for an international humanitarian organization and communicate with colleagues all over the world. Having key city time info readily displayed in my browser helps me a lot in timing my communications appropriately.
It\’s relevant browser enhancements like this that continues to leave IE in the dust! Keep up the good work!
March 24th, 2007 at 08:26 GMT
I have foxclocks installed on my desktop and it works perfectly. But just installed on my laptop and it will not play ball. I removed the default locations, but now when I add new ones, they don\’t show in bottom left corner. I haven\’t got it set to just show the icon, didn\’t change those default settings. So I should see city name and time, but don\’t.
I\’ve unistalled, reinstalled, removed the folder from the mozilla application data folder for my user, but no joy.
When I go to add/remove cities, sometimes the list is blank, when I click on my city to remove that, it doesn\’t select, it just stays grey like the button is having no effect.
How can i do a proper unistall (firefox is remembering stuff it shouldn\’t do when I remove stuff)? I mean, remove everything???
March 24th, 2007 at 08:37 GMT
Ok update… i tried removing foxclocks again, deleted the foxclocks folder from the moz application data folder. THen exported the settings from my desktop and loaded this in on my laptop - it all seems to be working fine now. Saved me 10 minutes setting it all up too. Very handy feature the import/export!
March 24th, 2007 at 14:23 GMT
Please add the option to turn off the Tool Tip of the Status bar completely. this routinely pops up and \
March 24th, 2007 at 14:24 GMT
Please add the option to turn off the Tool Tip of the Status bar completely. this routinely pops up and “stays on top” when my pointer quickly glides through it focus path, and then i have to wrestle it get it to go away. this is way to annoying. I have asked the prog to not show anything but then it just displays “No Locations selected”. PAIN! Also, I have the same issue of the time being off for DST. Just add a option to not use DST let me set it manually. Period. It is over-Hubris to think you have a perfect code job that will always work in a “System” that is in flux the way the DST system is right now in some areas (not my idea). But, just let me turn the Auto-adjust off. I am off by one-hour, and the system settings and my FOXclocks are correct for my time zone. FYI: I am using Win2k with DST off. Your Prog will “compensate” for any adjustment I make to always be one hour off. I compensate by changing the time of the setting in FOXclock and changing the text label to “lie” to me about it.
March 24th, 2007 at 17:22 GMT
@Mikey - Canberra is coming in the next version. That was an oversight on my part (though of course Canberra and Sydney have always been on the same time).
@Paul - I’m not quite sure what was going on there, but I’m glad it worked out. It is true that sometimes Firefox doesn’t quite install things perfectly, but that’s a fairly unsatisfactory explanation. Regarding uninstall, this is a peculiarity of Firefox - there’s no way for an extension to know that its being uninstalled, and since FoxClocks (like most extensions) us