google-chromenotifications
I'm currently getting Google Now notifications on my Android phone, my OSX laptop, and my Windows 8.1. Sometimes these notifications are great, but most of the time it just shows me the weather. The weather notifications almost always come at inopportune times (the last two were right after I got to work, and at 3 AM), and are never helpful.
How can I disable the weather notifications without disabling the other notifications?
It’s because you have the compact-chrome-databases option checked. Apparently it has a bug that is causing problems. It is a known bug, and they are working to fix it. You can sign up at their forums and submit your preferences file so that they can analyze it to figure out what’s going wrong.
(This isn’t the first time that the function hasn’t worked correctly, but to be fair, Chrome uses FTS3 which makes compacting its databases risky to begin with.)
Until Piriform can fix the bug, you should just un-check the compact-databases option and use only the cache-clearing function:
What worked for me (though I am not sure why) was to disable IPv6.
I saw this issue with Chromium, Slack and Discord on Arch Linux. Poking around on the net made me check my network settings. I ran watch -n 2 'ip address' and saw inet6 flapping between link tentative and link noprefixroute. This made me wonder if some IPv6 configuration on my network was to blame, since mtr attempts would result in no route to host after a few seconds.
Sure enough, the following commands completely resolved the ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED issues, and various HTTP requests frequently failing in chrome, slack and discord.
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
If someone were to know why this worked, and what I should be checking into to actually solve this problem, I'd be grateful. I hadn't updated my Internet gateway or system in a long time before this issue began occurring. Maybe my ISP is to blame?
Best Answer
Go into the Google Now app and tap the three dots in the top-right corner of one of the weather cards. You'll get a pop-up that reads "Interested in weather updates for your location?" Tap "NO" and that should be it.
If that doesn't do it, go into the Google Calendar app, open the menu, and select "Calendars to Display." If the local weather is included in that list, uncheck the box next to it.