{"id":863,"date":"2024-06-23T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/how-to-get-early-access-to-firefoxs-new-tab-page-weather-widget\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:02:51","slug":"how-to-get-early-access-to-firefoxs-new-tab-page-weather-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/how-to-get-early-access-to-firefoxs-new-tab-page-weather-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Early Access to Firefox\u2019s New Tab Page Weather Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>As you may know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/05\/mozilla-shares-firefox-roadmap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla has big plans for its browser<\/a> and, among the many new features set to rain down on us this year is greater personalisation of the new tab page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While the ability to set a new tab background image is the most eye-catching (literally) customisation change in the immediate offing, a series of smaller, more practical tweaks are in the works too, like the ability to see weather info on the new tab page.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Visiting a dedicated weather website is a <em>proactive<\/em> way to find out the latest forecast and temperature. But seeing at-a-glance conditions each time you open a new tab in Firefox (a page I see more times in an average day than my own face) is zero-effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Although this feature isn\u2019t yet ready for the masses, if you want to try it out early you can. If you\u2019ve upgraded to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/06\/firefox-127-improves-screenshot-tool-mixed-content-https\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Firefox 127 release<\/a> you can enable it like so: \u2013<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Go to<\/strong> <code>about:config<\/code><strong> in a new tab<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Accept Risk and Continue\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Search for <\/strong><code>browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showWeather<\/code><\/li>\n<li><strong>Double-click the result to enable the feature<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Open a new tab and you\u2019ll spot a temperature reading and weather icon now sits in the upper-right corner of the (otherwise rather empty) <em>New Tab<\/em> page. As the widget strap-line notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Accuweather<\/a> is being used as meteorological backend for this feature.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can choose to see a \u2018simplified\u2019 or \u2018detailed\u2019 (but not <em>that<\/em> detailed, mind) layout, and set Celsius or Fahrenheit as your preferred temperature unit. Clicking the widget opens the Accuweather website in a new tab for more detailed information.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Obviously, since this feature is not yet enabled by default nor exposed in the settings panel, you shouldn\u2019t expect much of it: it\u2019s a work-in-progress, may error out, might not be available to all locales, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Weather information is shown for an autodetected location which could be imprecise or flat-out wrong (especially if you use a VPN, a mobile tether, etc). 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