Every morning I checked the weather the same way: Cmd+T, type 'weather', wait for a Google card, close the tab.
That's four actions to see one piece of information I look at every single day.
I replaced all four actions with zero — the information is on the new tab itself.
What Weather & Clock Dashboard shows
Every time you open a new tab:
- Current conditions (temp, humidity, wind, UV index)
- 3-day forecast
- Analog clock with your local time
- Sunrise/sunset times
- Day of week and date
Data from wttr.in — an open weather API that requires no key and no account. The extension detects your location via the browser's geolocation API (you approve it once), then fetches weather data directly.
What it doesn't do
No push notifications. No hourly alerts. No radar. No 10-day forecast. No premium tier.
The goal is ambient awareness, not weather obsession. Seeing the current temperature and whether it'll rain today is enough for 90% of my weather needs. For everything else, I still open a full weather site.
The design principle: passive over active
Most weather apps are designed to pull you in — to make you scroll, to show you details you didn't ask for. A new tab weather display is designed differently. It's there when you open a tab; it doesn't demand attention when you don't.
After a week with it, I stopped opening weather sites almost entirely.
Install it
Weather & Clock Dashboard — Firefox Add-ons
Free. No account. Works in Firefox. Location is never sent anywhere except wttr.in for the weather query.
One of 11 Firefox extensions I built — all free, no-account. See the full series.
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