# Date Today for Firefox

> The best clock displays the current date and time at a glance. It offers a digital clock in the browser toolbar and an analog clock in the web browser's menu bar, allowing you to know the current date and time with just one blink.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/date-today](https://chrome-stats.com/d/date-today)

## Overview

- **ID:** `date-today`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Stefan vd
- **Category:** appearance,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 752
- **Weekly downloads:** 27
- **Rating:** 4.58 / 5 (43 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.10
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-25
- **First published:** 2016-07-26
- **Size:** 345 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/date-today/)
- **Website:** [https://www.stefanvd.net](https://www.stefanvd.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/date-today/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/date-today/privacy/)

## Description

Date Today for Firefox is a lightweight browser extension that displays the current date and time directly in your toolbar and menu bar. Offering both analog and digital clock options, you can quickly glance to know the current hour, minutes, day of the week, day number, and month. Customize the clock with your preferred color themes, font styles, and choose between 12-hour or 24-hour formats.

Key features include a popup panel displaying full date/time info, picture-in-picture mode for floating displays, customizable badges showing date and time details, support for dark mode, and an easy context menu to paste timestamps into any text field. This tool helps you stay organized and efficiently manage your schedule with minimal effort, right from your browser.

## Rankings

- #3,916 — Overall
- #110 — Alerts & Updates
- #3 — date
- #60 — x data
- #66 — firefox
- #71 — todo

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `alarms`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Overall, users praise Date Today for Firefox for its clean, minimalist clock and reliable performance that does what it promises. The most repeated positive point is the handy time stamps that save time. Several reviewers also highlighted the simple, straightforward design as a strength. Some requests for improvement include larger display for readability and better mobile support, with a few reports of instability; however the positive sentiment dominates.

### Pros

- Beautiful and minimalist clock design.
- Simple, clean UI that does what it promises.
- Reliable and smooth performance.
- Time stamps are convenient and save time.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/date-today)