# Literary Clock

> Shows time in quotes from literature, on a dark background featuring the earth as it was ~12 hours ago (adjusted for your time-zone).

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/literary-clock](https://chrome-stats.com/d/literary-clock)

## Overview

- **ID:** `literary-clock`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bora M. ALPER
- **Category:** appearance,other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 20
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-02
- **First published:** 2018-08-12
- **Size:** 306 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/literary-clock/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/boramalper/literary-clock/issues](https://github.com/boramalper/literary-clock/issues)

## Description

Literary Clock is a Firefox add-on that displays time in quotes from literature. It features a dark background with the earth image from ~12 hours ago, adjusted for your time-zone.

## Rankings

- #24,340 — Overall
- #47 — clock
- #200 — library

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/data/himawari/img/fd_/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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