Gnome weather extension as malware?

[Robert Moskowitz]

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.