![]() ![]() This removed the double entries but seems to keep the sites. Everything seemed to work for a day.Ģ) Firefox was restarted, and then the problem (not logging sites that Firefox was visiting) started again.ģ) I noticed on the apps page ( ) that the “Last Data Sent” for the browser plugin was last week.Ĥ) In the browser plugin, I unchecked the “I’m already using the full Rescuetime application on this computer”.ĥ) Sites started being logged again, but I had a huge mark for “firefox” since it was counting the time twice.Ħ) I went and changed Firefox to be ignored. Here are the steps I used to get Firefox on Linux to report websites correctly:ġ) Updated Firefox, made sure the plugin was up-to-date, and also updated the desktop app. (I’m also running a VPN, so there’s was a thought that could be the source of the problem too.)Įventually I had enough spare time I was able to do some more debugging and eventually I found a way to make it work! The solution ![]() I have a couple of privacy plugins going in Firefox, and I tried to whitelist everything I could, but we just couldn’t get anything to connect. 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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