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Firefox's New Tab Weather Widget: How to Try it Now

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Firefox's New Tab Weather Widget: How to Try it Now - OMG! Ubuntu

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

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Neat. Small thing, but neat. Just wish we had lots of providers, but I understand they get money from AccuWeather for this, so it's understandable there is no swapping this around (AccuWeather is pretty inaccurate for where I live, although not as bad as some other ones).
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Ah, stealth tracking in the guise of usefulness. Wonderful!
- There's already a location service for the browser you can turn on or off, this doesn't add any tracking that wasn't already there.
  I swear every time Mozilla does anything people find some way to be negative about it.
  
  I swear every time Mozilla does anything people find some way to be negative about it.
  I mean, Lemmy is pretty much mostly for curmudgeons if we're being honest. Or at least that's what non-cat posts feel like. Mozilla isn't even all that special.
  But yeah, it's annoying. Just stop using the browser if you're that annoyed by it, and more importantly, stop letting us know about it! We know, you're upset. Go post on Twitter like the rest of the angry people do!
- Knowing Mozilla it's probably done client side (meaning it sends weather data for all major regions or something and the client filters what is needed)
- Before insinuating such stuff maybe it'd be better to be sure. I haven't looked at the implementation so I'd refrain from commenting on the privacy of it, but a priori I'd be inclined to trust Mozilla
  I personally won't be using this but it seems to be a welcome change for the so called normies coming from Chrome

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