# Weather New Tab

> A beautiful new tab page with live weather, hourly and 7-day forecast, AQI, dynamic sky gradient, spotlight search, a Wordle game, and a daily planner.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `weather-new-tab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** CR-8
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-25
- **First published:** 2026-03-22
- **Size:** 94 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/weather-new-tab/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/CR-8/new-tab-extension](https://github.com/CR-8/new-tab-extension)

## Description

Replace your new tab with a live weather dashboard that adapts to the time of day.

<strong>Features</strong>
- 🌤 Current temperature, condition, humidity, wind, visibility, UV index
- ⏱ Hourly forecast strip + 7-day outlook
- 🌫 Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) with PM2.5 data
- 🌅 Dynamic sky gradient that shifts from dawn to dusk
- 🎨 Auto sidebar theme (dark at night, light during the day) with manual toggle
- 🔍 Spotlight search (Ctrl+S) with Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Bing
- 🟩 Built-in Wordle game with leaderboard (Alt+G)
- 📅 Daily planner with Google Calendar-style month view (Alt+P)
- 📦 Cached weather — loads instantly on repeat visits, no skeletons

<strong>Privacy</strong>
No accounts. No tracking. No API keys. All weather data is fetched from the free, open Open-Meteo API. Location is used only to fetch local weather and is never stored or transmitted elsewhere.

## Rankings

- #85,012 — Overall
- #49 — weather
- #134 — temperature
- #177 — forecast

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `geolocation`

### Host permissions

- `https://api.open-meteo.com/`
- `https://air-quality-api.open-meteo.com/`
- `https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Access to location data can impact user privacy if misused or shared improperly.
- 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/weather-new-tab)