OpenWeatherMap API for Browser Extensions: A Practical Guide If you're building a browser extension that shows weather data, OpenWeatherMap is the go-to choice. Their free tier is genuinely useful, the API is well-documented, and it works well for extensions that call the API on-demand (rather than from a server). Here's what I learned building Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox. The OpenWeat
r/startpages Is the Most Underrated Firefox Community You're Not Using If you care about browser customization, there's a subreddit you probably haven't found yet: r/startpages. With 35,000+ members, it's a community of people who genuinely care about what appears when they open a new browser tab. They share custom HTML/CSS homepages, new tab extensions, and browser startpage setups. The r/start
The New Tab Page Is Prime Real Estate. Are You Wasting It? You open a new browser tab dozens of times a day. Most people see either a blank white page, or a corporate-designed "inspiration" page they never asked for. That's a waste. Let's be conservative: 20 new tabs per day × 300 working days per year = 6,000 glimpses at your new tab page per year. Each glimpse lasts maybe 2-3 seconds before yo
Why Your Browser Extension Doesn't Need an Account (And Why That Matters) When I built Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox, I made a deliberate choice early on: no user accounts, ever. This might seem like a limitation. In practice, it turned out to be the extension's best feature. Look at most popular new tab extensions and you'll find the same pattern: Install the extension Create an account
5 Lessons I Learned Building a Firefox New Tab Extension from Scratch I spent the better part of a month building Weather & Clock Dashboard — a Firefox new tab extension that shows live weather, world clocks, and a search bar. No frameworks, no bundlers, just pure HTML/CSS/JS. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I started. manifest_version: 3 Transition Is Mostly Smooth, But Watch for
Building a Firefox New Tab Extension: From Idea to AMO Publishing Every time you open a new tab in Firefox, there's a missed opportunity. The default page is... fine. But what if it showed you the weather, your world clocks, and a search bar — all without any data leaving your device? That's what I built with Weather & Clock Dashboard. Here's how the whole thing came together, including the surp