# News Hound

> Up-to-date news coverage aggregated from thousands of blogs, newspapers, organizations, and magazines around the Web.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/news-hound](https://chrome-stats.com/d/news-hound)

## Overview

- **ID:** `news-hound`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Apps'n Widgets
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 57
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.9.8
- **Last updated:** 2019-06-15
- **First published:** 2019-01-31
- **Size:** 810 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/news-hound/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/bcosca/news-hound](https://github.com/bcosca/news-hound)

## Description

News Hound is a lightweight and easy-to-use Chrome extension designed to keep you informed with real-time news coverage. Aggregating content from thousands of blogs, newspapers, organizations, and magazines, it delivers the latest headlines and stories across a wide variety of topics directly to your browser. Whether you want to catch up on breaking news or browse articles from your favorite publishers, News Hound offers a seamless reading experience without interrupting your workflow.

## Rankings

- #15,161 — Overall
- #23 — news
- #139 — topic
- #198 — sound
- #236 — publish
- #238 — organization

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `geolocation`
- `https://news.google.com/`
- `https://openweathermap.org/`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com, openweathermap.org
- 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/news-hound)