Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Arkadi Renko on Sept. 27, 2010 · permalink

Just to say that in advance: FCF was my best-ever favorite add-on for Firefox, installed on every PC I ever worked on as standard tool No. 1. That was until the crippled version 2.0 came out. Now it is only yet another useless eye-candy, a shadow of it's former self. I urgently ask you to forget your upcoming "business model" to have weather forecasts for more than 4 days as paid service and keep peoples' FREE choice of having their short trips and medium term vacations planned with a fully-fledged Forecastfox as it was before. My family pretty much never went anywhere without checking the wheather before with FCF for the next 8 days. If you don't offer that anymore, FCF/Accuweather turns into yet only another rip-off and make it useless to install. IOW: you lost your USP. I can have 4 days forecast with any web weather service for free, and surely will turn to other services as the actual state of the soft is simply embarrassing, compared to what it was before and which "features" it sports by now. Keep the 8 day period, or even enhance on that, and add the choice to use other forecast services like i.e. http://www.ilmeteo.it/meteo/Porlezza to check the weather in the poular Lake Lugano region or http://www.centrometeolombardo.com/ for the neighbouring Lake Como region (the Menaggio youth hostel is covered in the Lonely Planet travel Guide). Those services "know" their local Alps weather best. Give us back what made you so popular, please. If that was your deal with Accuweather, let me tell you what the others voiced already: you were ill-advised to believe people are as simple-minded as you obviously deem them to be. WTH should anyone shell out a buck for less service? Never that will work.