Feuerfest

Mozila incooperated yet another feature nobody asked for. And of course it's turned on per-default. Screw you Mozilla!

Some people seem to have this feature for weeks as it's gradually rolled out, I got it today. Now whenever I typed a city name in the adressbar I would get a small window from accuweather showing me the current temperature. And from what I read online even the location data is shared!? What the heck Mozilla?

Naturally my immediate action was to disable this bullshit.

Open about:config and then change the following values:

browser.urlbar.weather.featureGate = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.weatherfeed = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showWeather = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showWeatherOptIn = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.weather.locationSearchEnabled = false

if you want to see all parameters associated with this feature, search for: browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.*weather

Sources:

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-your-local-weather-forecast-firefox-address-bar
• https://pupuweb.com/how-can-i-stop-firefoxs-new-tab-weather-widget-from-tracking-my-location/