Weather Map looping on https://radar.weather.gov/ does not work. No errors displayed
I am trying to transition from MS Edge to Firefox. I frequently use the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administrations weather services (for example, https://forecast.weather.gov/).
Weather maps loop (show motion) without a problem in Edge (for example, https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=N0R&rid=FFC&loop=yes). But they do not show a map and they do not display an error in Foxfire.
I tried the javascript manager add-in and made https://radar.weather.gov/ and exception to allow, but it did not work, and it caused problems with other pages I use multiple times a day, so I removed it. I saw the sequence about a similar problem with he weather underground weather maps, but I as best as I can tell https://radar.weather.gov/ is not blacklisted.
How do I get NOAA's weather maps to loop (move) in Foxfire? Do I just need to give up and use Edge?
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Thanks for the help. I ran through all these options, and "loop" still did not work.
I also asked the radar.weather.gov webmaster what I should do. He asked if I needed to activate Flash. I have tried to do that before and "chased-my-tail" all around the FireFox web site and Options to no avail.
I tried again with the same run-around-in-circles results.
So I finally, gave up, went to the Adobe site, installed Flash, restarted Firefox, and now I have Flash on my list of plug-ins.
AND the radar maps LOOP!!!!!!!
This was really a dumb-dumb, level zero fix. But it sure would have been nice if some of the Firefox help articles included it. Especially, when I am in the Firefox add ins. I searched for "flash". It returned many special Flash for YouTube, face time, ... themes ..., but if plain old Adobe Flash is there, it is very well hidden.
Maybe moz://a will pick this up and upgrade their help.
Thanks again for the reply and the ideas.
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Thanks for the help. I ran through all these options, and "loop" still did not work.
I also asked the radar.weather.gov webmaster what I should do. He asked if I needed to activate Flash. I have tried to do that before and "chased-my-tail" all around the FireFox web site and Options to no avail.
I tried again with the same run-around-in-circles results.
So I finally, gave up, went to the Adobe site, installed Flash, restarted Firefox, and now I have Flash on my list of plug-ins.
AND the radar maps LOOP!!!!!!!
This was really a dumb-dumb, level zero fix. But it sure would have been nice if some of the Firefox help articles included it. Especially, when I am in the Firefox add ins. I searched for "flash". It returned many special Flash for YouTube, face time, ... themes ..., but if plain old Adobe Flash is there, it is very well hidden.
Maybe moz://a will pick this up and upgrade their help.
Thanks again for the reply and the ideas.
Modified by bscranton
That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.
Fred,
Thanks. :)
I tried to do what you asked, "Flag my Post as a solved problem". Did I get it right, or is there something else I need to do?
Modified by bscranton
Well done.