# Microsoft WowTab

> WowTab is a highly customizable new tab extension focused on efficiency enhancement, created by Microsoft.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/microsoft-wowtab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/microsoft-wowtab)

## Overview

- **ID:** `microsoft-wowtab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Microsoft
- **Category:** search-tools,photos-music-videos,tabs
- **Daily users:** 49
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 2.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.177
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-11
- **First published:** 2024-10-21
- **Size:** 12 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/microsoft-wowtab/)
- **Website:** [https://wowtab.microsoft.com/en-us](https://wowtab.microsoft.com/en-us)

## Description

Microsoft WowTab - New Tab Page for Firefox
 
Microsoft WowTab transforms your new tab page into a fully customizable experience designed for productivity and personalization. Users can personalize their new tab page with widgets, favorite websites, and stunning wallpapers from a vast library or their own uploads. Simple, elegant, and practical, WowTab brings an efficient and visually refreshing experience every time you open a new tab.
 
With the latest update, WowTab introduces a built-in calendar feature and a clock, allowing users to organize their schedules and keep important dates front and center. The update also brings a refreshed UI for the weather widget, delivering an easier, more visually appealing way to check the forecast. The casual game widgets offer thousands of casual games for you to enjoy your entertainment time.

## Rankings

- #16,196 — Overall
- #22 — microsoft
- #27 — minecrosoft
- #107 — forecast
- #158 — widget

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `offscreen`
- `storage`
- `cookies`
- `alarms`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 website URL may be invalid

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