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.
I love this tool, very handy and very simple and has maximum purpose.
Great tool, I like the old ‘Windows Classic’ clean desktop with no widgets or sidebar distractions, but I do need to keep track of different time zones around the world so FoxClocks is a perfect solution for me.
? Operating system: Windows XP SP3
? Web browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.6
? FoxClocks: 2.5.46 (tz database 2010a)
There’s a bug, I think. I have selected the 24-hour format, then click on “Apply” button and finally “OK” but the time is still shown as 12-hour am/pm format at the status bar, when I click on the FoxClocks icon.
Please, check this out. Thanks.
I am very happy with the functionality of foxclocks and wished more people made use of it, for their benefit as much as my own.
This is a great tool. I have contacts in various parts of the US and overseas and this is a help to me.
Very useful tool that could be improved by allowing abbreviations for the days and locations at the user’s choice (M or Mon for Monday, Wdc or WashDC for Washington, D,C. and so on).
Foxclock provides exactely the help I need for international conferencing and teamwork. Precise but unobtrusive and easy to use. Please do not ask how to improve. It already is 100%.
I simply could not live without it now! Wonderful piece of work!
Foxclocks is one of those software gems that makes life easier by removing unnecessary complexity. At Consult4you we love Foxclocks as we are always interacting with clients and partners across the globe. Thanks guys and well done. BTW we’re donating through paypal as we have a policy of supporting great open source software. It’s only fair that we contribute something back to the community.
I cannot imagine Firefox without Foxclocks :)
Love this little goody, and it keeps getting better. Sweet.
Excellent info tool, makes keeping in touch with family around the world that little bit easier.
Simply the best multi-timezone tool I’ve ever used. You should publish one for the iPhone, Blackberry & Droid platforms as a stand-alone application.
Love your tool….one comment for improvement. I live in Dallas, but it shows Chicago for CST. Let me change the name of my locales to specific cities in each time zone.
Simple and Intelligent a masterpiece of add-ons could not imagine Firefox without it!
Thank you very much.
A great little utility. Being in a worldwide community it helps to know what this time is in various parts of the world. Unobtrusive but all the info is there when you need it. Great add on! 100%!
Foxclocks is fantastic
Latest update seemed to break something, I had to redo my clock settings and now the status bar shows flags regardless if I have display flags checked or not.
It is a nice handy tool, but it has w too many updates!!
I want to see clocks like yours that also show SECONDS!
If you know of any I’d greatly appreciate your reply.
Thanks for this extension…
I installed FoxClocks on FF 3.6 on WinXP SP2/SP3 (can’t remember, not at that PC now…) I have two issues (a bugfix request and a feature request, I think):
1. I can’t hide the flag. I have it set to just show the date (e.g. Tues Feb 2, 2010), in the Eastern time zone. I found 2x show flag checkboxes in the options, unchecked both, no effect. Is this a bug?
2. Feature request: the ability to reposition the FoxClocks display on the statusbar “to the left/right of” other icons, e.g. CS Lite, ABP, NoScript… For example, the old “Statusbar Clock” addon includes this ability, see
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52
My work involves regular contact with people in 10 different time zones, and Fox Clocks such a great way to be able to quickly verify the time around the world. However I have the same problem as the post from KNTRO on 2010-Jan-27 at 14:36. Same details regarding OS, web browser and Foxclocks version. The 24 hour format display option doesn’t work.
Many thanks for a great application. One minor issue I have just spotted; when I change the options –> Time Format to include [GMT offset] it fails to show when I use FoxClocks Icon (hover to display clocks) setting. It works fine on the Status bar.
All the best,
James
PS – Just found the solution, apologies for being too quick of the mark. However I do wonder why there are settings for both ‘the statusbar/toolbar clocks’ and ‘the statusbar/toolbar clocks tooltips’.
A bit confusing as I just proved!
Thanks again.
Please enable Foxclocks to install and run under the new SeaMonkey 2.
I was able to kludge version 2.5.35 simply by changing install.rdf to show a maximum version number for Seamonkey as 2.0.*, but that doesn’t work for version 2.5.46.
Great tool. I use it to show the time for 2 family members in different countries. Thanks
Thank you very much for you provid this addon for us to let us know the Time wherever we want to know.
I love the tool, I work in a company located in almost every country and use this tool allot. I just miss a few time zones like for example San Jose, CA I chose it and it came up with one in Mexico, so missed a meeting once. hehe. But awesome tool, recommended.
My husband is in Afghanistan right now and I’d like to have his time on my foxclocks. He is 4 1/2 hours ahead of GMT but none of the time zone options feature the half hour. Could this please be updated? Thanks.
Absolutely Fabulous!! I’ve got family en Chile, Denmark, France and United Kingdom – is to say in 3 time zones. I live half the year in Europe, the rest in Chile – FoxClocks really is a great tool to keep some track of the time around the world.
I love FoxClocks! Thank very much you for making it. I highly appreciate it. It’s a wonderfully useful Add-on, especially for people like me who keep in touch with people and events occurring in different time zones. Once again, thank you!
One point for improvement, concerns the option of saving the name of chosen locations. For languages that are now usually in left-to-right sequence, it works well, for example “China” -> “??”. But when it comes to right-to-left scripts, like “Israel” -> “??????????”, the whole order of name, time, and date gets jumbled. Can this be fixed, please?
Thank you gain.
The flag icon for Russia is upside down ie the colors are in the wrong order. Otherwise a fabulous tool.
Really good tool!!!
Pretty much amazing. The only improvement I can think of is the ability to add it to the compact menu; something where you could scroll down to foxclocks and view all your clocks in a list. Like the hover function; just in the compact menu, but that is probably more on their end. All in all this is an awesome add-on and very customizable. I like everything about it and mad props the creators.
Behaves quietly and reliably (some apps don’t). Have you ever seen a clock time animation from some Italian students where the time is written, erased, and then updated by pencil on brown paper at regular intervals? It’s a lot of fun.
I like this add-on, but the Russian times are all wrong. They are all 3 hours further ahead than they should be.
For example, at 20:33 GMT, my friend in Moscow said it was 23:33, aka 3 hours ahead. But FoxClocks says he’s 6 hours ahead. For all other countries, the displayed time looks right, so something seems to be wrong with the settings for the Russian timezones.
Is there a way to increase the font size of the clock?
Hi there,
The short answer is, not really. The longer answer is, the font size is determined by your theme, so you could find a theme with larger fonts. Alternatively, if you’re familiar with ‘CSS’, you can use the special file userChrome.css to modify the font size. See
http://lifehacker.com/197715/customize-firefox-with-userchromecss
for more information.
Having said that, I should really provide a nice way of doing this through FoxClocks…
to Firelord: Living in Russia, I don’t see any problem with Russian times.
And the tool is really great, for us Russians having 11 time zones across the country, plus for some of us having friends/ former compatriots all over the world)
However, as a sport fun what I’m missing in this tool is a possibility to check what time it will be, say, in Khabarovsk when it’s 6 pm in Vancouver and so on – or am I just unable to find the feature?
The ‘meeting planner’ functionality that you mention has been requested by a number of people, and is ‘on the list’…
FoxClocks v2.5.46 with Firefox v3.6 on OSX v10.6.2 – I see no Apply/Okay buttons in the prefs, and no way to save the display settings, for example to change to a custom time display. I change the settings, but they never stick.
It’s a great and simple tool, cyrillic characters are also supported, but in the “FoxClocks icon” mode you are stuck with some unchangeable time format
One small suggestion to make Foxclocks even more useful:
- Support for Sunbird 1.0pre. I use this version and I find it to be a lot more stable and more responsive as 0.9. I realize that it is a pre-release, but if possible, it would be great to see Foxclocks supported.
And while I’m at it… I was thinking the other day that having options for two alternate colours would be kind of useful. One colour can be for “business hours”, another can be overnight hours where people are usually sleeping (10 PM to 6 AM or something), and then another colour could be for the remaining hours in the day. Just a thought.
Thanks for this extension!
Great addon – however an option to disable the tooltip would be great!
One suggestion to make Foxclocks useful:
Display the real time (of any `site´ of time) and not the computer time
Thanks
hi everyone. im from panama, yes the one that hace the canal. jejeje.
well i am so glad with this contribution for firefox, this is awesome
but i want to give an idea that i will love to have. i would doit by myself but i dont know anything about it so i think this is for the best
what do you think of being able to give to every country the skill of having a personalized configuration. i mean, if I wanted to see a game of football of the real madrid in Spain and they place the hour in format of 24 hours, but I dont know how to use this format, I only know my country format, I would like to have 24 hours of Spain format and mine in format of 12 hours, what would seem to you.
Hi!
I love Foxclocks! The problem is, I started hating Firefox, because it has become quite slow on my computer. (I don’t think a virus is causing this — I am careful and have scanned my computer.)
Can I put in a request to create Chromeclocks? You would bring a big smile to my face if you would!
Thanks! And thanks for the many months that I used Foxclocks!