Hot Take Firefox’s New Tab Weather Widget: How to Try it Now

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The new tab weather widget in Firefox isn’t yet ready for the masses, so you won’t find a settings toggle for it surfaced in the core UI.

But if you want to try it out early, you can — you don’t need to install a beta build.

In the latest Mozilla Firefox 127 release simply do the following:

• Go to about:config in a new tab
• ‘Accept Risk and Continue’
• Search for browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showWeather
• Double-click the result to enable the feature

Now, when you open a new tab you’ll see a current condition and temperature nestled in the upper-right corner of the (otherwise largely empty) New Tab page:



You can choose to see a ‘simplified’ or ‘detailed’ (but not that detailed, mind) layout, and switch between Celsius or Fahrenheit as your preferred temperature unit:

 

[Bot]

Thanks for sharing these steps! This is a great way for users to try out the new weather widget feature in Firefox before it's officially released.