Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again.
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I was going to in Firefox took a long time to reply. It was as if Firefox was hanging, and other Firefox windows were not responding either.
I finally fired up wireshark and I was seeing that requests for things like apis.google.com (or some such) was being routed through a .no site (by reverse lookup on IP address). Perhaps this extension was altering Firefox's proxy settings.
I don't have the time or resources to do a serious review, but I am pointing this out and perhaps others may have noticed this as well. Or are suffering and not knowing it. This may be accidental or really actually malicious; just don't know.
On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again.
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I was going to in Firefox took a long time to reply. It was as if Firefox was hanging, and other Firefox windows were not responding either.
I finally fired up wireshark and I was seeing that requests for things like apis.google.com (or some such) was being routed through a .no site (by reverse lookup on IP address). Perhaps this extension was altering Firefox's proxy settings.
I don't have the time or resources to do a serious review, but I am pointing this out and perhaps others may have noticed this as well. Or are suffering and not knowing it. This may be accidental or really actually malicious; just don't know.
I just fired up Wireshark and set it to monitor all HTTP traffic from my machine to any address. I'm not seeing anything untoward with respect to the Weather extension, although I wonder if it's necessary for it to check in every 15 seconds. FWIW, I'm not using any extensions from the repo; I've installed them all directly from the Gnome extensions site.
There are no slowdowns with either Chrome or Firefox.
On 04/30/2014 10:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again.
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I was going to in Firefox took a long time to reply. It was as if Firefox was hanging, and other Firefox windows were not responding either.
I finally fired up wireshark and I was seeing that requests for things like apis.google.com (or some such) was being routed through a .no site (by reverse lookup on IP address). Perhaps this extension was altering Firefox's proxy settings.
I don't have the time or resources to do a serious review, but I am pointing this out and perhaps others may have noticed this as well. Or are suffering and not knowing it. This may be accidental or really actually malicious; just don't know.
I just fired up Wireshark and set it to monitor all HTTP traffic from my machine to any address. I'm not seeing anything untoward with respect to the Weather extension, although I wonder if it's necessary for it to check in every 15 seconds.
Maybe that was all I was seeing.
FWIW, I'm not using any extensions from the repo; I've installed them all directly from the Gnome extensions site.
I also installed from the Gnomes extensions site.
There are no slowdowns with either Chrome or Firefox.
I will keep monitoring the situation and see if any slowdowns develop. Then maybe turn the extension back on (maybe check if there have been any updates?).
Hi,
Disclaimer: I do not use this extension, but I do use the XFCE counterpart.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:29:24AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this.
This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools. A year or so back most popular weather feeds either stopped, went proprietary, or kept changing their feed structure too often. At this point many FOSS weather tools moved to the service provided by Norwegian Weather Institute. It is never going to go proprietary, and will most likely stay alive for the foreseeable future. It is also rather reliable.
I hope that explains why it cannot be changed, no options out there.
Cheers,
Robert Moskowitz:
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this.
Suvayu Ali:
This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools. A year or so back most popular weather feeds either stopped, went proprietary, or kept changing their feed structure too often. At this point many FOSS weather tools moved to the service provided by Norwegian Weather Institute. It is never going to go proprietary, and will most likely stay alive for the foreseeable future. It is also rather reliable.
While that sounds reasonable, the 15 second refresh period does not. Does it really do that? Is it really necessary to do so?
On 05/01/2014 07:47 PM, Tim wrote:
Robert Moskowitz:
This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service, and you can't change this.
Suvayu Ali:
This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools. A year or so back most popular weather feeds either stopped, went proprietary, or kept changing their feed structure too often. At this point many FOSS weather tools moved to the service provided by Norwegian Weather Institute. It is never going to go proprietary, and will most likely stay alive for the foreseeable future. It is also rather reliable.
While that sounds reasonable, the 15 second refresh period does not. Does it really do that? Is it really necessary to do so?
I've left the capture running for a while and it seems that the timing varies. It's been a while since it last checked. It seems that the checks are once per 30 seconds. So, that's one http call per 30 seconds. I can live with that.
The wireshark filter I'm using is
http and ip.dst_host == 157.249.32.164
I have two locations enabled.
Tim:
While that sounds reasonable, the 15 second refresh period does not. Does it really do that? Is it really necessary to do so?
Steven Stern:
I've left the capture running for a while and it seems that the timing varies. It's been a while since it last checked. It seems that the checks are once per 30 seconds. So, that's one http call per 30 seconds. I can live with that.
I was thinking of the other side of the equation: Thousands of Linux users all blasting some server every few seconds for the next few years.
Unless you're actually in the airport control tower, or flying a plane, I doubt you need to keep updating a weather report that often.
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Unless you're actually in the airport control tower, or flying a plane, I doubt you need to keep updating a weather report that often.
LOL your comment made my day. Well said. :)
Although by reading some other mailing lists, I could quickly conclude that some people are not flying planes but are still high above the ground... ;-)
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