I left Firefox 4.0.1 open for a little over 24-hours, and the extension seemed to update as expected. I didn't continously check to see if it was updated, but all looked well when I checked about every 5 or so hours.

Did any of you notice that it sometimes updates? Or is it never automatically updating?

Today, I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension. I'll also try keeping the Firefox window minimized to see if that makes a difference. We'll see what happens with that setup today.

On mine at least, it seems like it's going through the motions of updating the weather data, even if it never actually displays the new info. I'm sure it works for most people or there would be a lot more complaints -- what interests me is discovering exactly what circumstances are causing this to occur on my (and similar) systems.

The "Last updated" counter dutifully shows the last update at the expected intervals, but the weather data displayed always reflects the first content retrieved upon starting the browser or dumping the cache and ordering it to refresh. The updated info is never displayed. Could there be some temp files that are not being purged, or a cached weather data file that is being set as read-only, on certain systems?

If you can tell me where the cached data is stored between weather updates, I can monitor to see if it is actually changing (which might indicate something wrong with the plugin's ability to display new data) or if the data is being prevented from updating (which may indicate something is wrong with the disk or cache settings preventing incremental overwrites)

I am still using Windows XP, SP3.

As a follow-up: after removing and reinstalling the WWL extension, it's now updating like it should! Evidently, the stored data was not deleted, as all my settings were still there after reinstalling. I'm clueless what the problem may have been, but am happy it's working now. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Sorry, but it looks like I have to retract my previous "all fixed" post. While the program updated successfully a few times (10 minute intervals), it's now reverted to the same no update problem as before. No programs were added or deleted in the interim, only light and safe surfing, and I remain totally stumped!

I had been seeing this symptom in FF 3.6.x for a long time. I finally upgraded to FF 5 on both of my computers, and it seemed like the symptom had gone away. Finally, after perhaps a month of using FF 5, the symptom has reappeared again on one of the computers. It's reappeared on the WinXP box, but not yet on the Win7 box, which I use only a fraction of the time.

Firefox 3.6.13. Auto update