# Forecast: Google™ Weather

> A lightweight and accurate weather extension for the entire globe based on Google Technology

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-weather](https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-weather)

## Overview

- **ID:** `google-weather`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** moris
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 399
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 2.67 / 5 (48 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.10resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2015-08-04
- **Size:** 50 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-weather/)
- **Website:** [http://mybrowseraddon.com/google-weather.html](http://mybrowseraddon.com/google-weather.html)

## Description

Forecast: Google™ Weather is a lightweight Chrome extension offering accurate weather updates globally based on trusted Google technology. It supports thousands of cities and countries, providing detailed 10-day forecasts including temperature, precipitation, and wind information. The badge icon displays current temperature and location for quick glance updates.

Users can easily search and save their preferred locations with autocomplete and spell correction features. By default, the extension shows Mountain View, California weather on installation but can be customized anytime. Designed for fast, reliable, and worldwide weather insights, this extension enhances your browsing experience with actionable weather data at your fingertips.

## Rankings

- #5,687 — Overall
- #159 — Alerts & Updates
- #319 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #5 — forecast
- #10 — weather
- #28 — temperature

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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

Users appreciate that the add-on correctly identifies their local weather and allows hourly updates on demand. However, multiple reviews highlight issues such as the add-on not saving the user's city, malfunctioning after restarts, and being limited mainly to USA locations. Additionally, concerns about privacy arise due to the add-on requesting broad data access, and users note that the extension seems abandoned, with no updates occurring in years.

### Pros

- Accurately detects and displays the local weather location.
- Weather forecast refreshes hourly upon user action.

### Cons

- Fails to remember user's city/location, requiring repeated input.
- Does not function correctly after restarting the browser or computer.
- Requests access to data for all websites, raising privacy concerns.
- Appears abandoned with no updates for several years.
- Functionality is limited or only works properly for USA locations.

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