3/1/2024 0 Comments Rescuetime firefox![]() The end result was that something was preventing the browser plugin from talking to the desktop app (specifically, it couldn’t make a websocket connection). I contacted RescueTime support and we ran through some debugging. And the browser plugin was just not reporting that. But if I go to gmail or twitter… well, I want to know if I’m spending too much time there. All of those are good and productive uses of my time. Firefox was marked “Not Productive”, so my weekly report always had a ton of “red” on it.įor me, this was a problem because as a software developer I spend an outrageous amount of time using a Firefox: I’m going to Github, Trello, Jira, wiki’s, etc. At the end of the week I would get my weekly report and it would show hours-and-hours of time spent on “Firefox”, and no time spent on any websites. I was running Ubuntu 16.04 (and 17.04 I think, but I haven’t confirmed this in a while) and the latest version of Firefox, with the up-to-date RescueTime plugins and desktop app. I recently discovered a way to resolve this, and thought I would share it with the world in case there are other FireFox users on Linux that are seeing the same issue. I really want to know if I’m being productive, and tools like RescueTime have been a huge help with that!Ī couple of months ago I ran into a strange problem where RescueTime wasn’t recording the websites I was visiting in FireFox (which is now my primary browser thanks to their attention to privacy). Over the years I’ve been a big proponent of tracking my time in some fashion. 26 December 2019 Fixing RescueTime with Firefox on Linux
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