# News & Widget Dashboard — New Tab

> A beautiful, customizable new tab dashboard for Firefox. Live news feeds, weather, bookmarks, notes, and clock — all in one place. Dark and light mode. Drag to rearrange.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `news-widget-dashboard`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Skil
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 6
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-06
- **First published:** 2026-05-02
- **Size:** 29 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/news-widget-dashboard/)

## Description

Transform your new tab into a powerful personal dashboard.

News & Widget Dashboard gives you everything you need, right when you open a new tab:

📰 Live News Feeds — Follow RSS feeds from any source. BBC News and TechCrunch included by default. Add your own feeds in settings.

🌤 Weather Widget — Current conditions, temperature, and wind. Enter any city or use automatic location.

🕐 Date & Time — Clean, large clock with full date. Updates every second.

🔖 Bookmarks — Add your favourite sites for one-click access.

📝 Notes — A quick notepad that saves as you type. Never lose a thought.

🔍 Search Bar — Prominent search bar at the top. Just start typing.

Customizable to your needs:
- Add, remove, and resize any widget
- Drag widgets to reorder them
- Dark mode, Light mode, or follow system preference

Privacy-first:
- No personal data collected
- Your notes and bookmarks stay on your device
- No ads, no trackers

## Rankings

- #42,764 — Overall
- #19 — widget
- #26 — dashboard
- #81 — temperature
- #161 — news

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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 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-widget-dashboard)