Weather
The temperature where you are, in the corner of your new tab. No account, no API key, and no forecast to scroll — just what it’s doing outside, right now.
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What it shows
A temperature, a condition, and the name of the place. That is the entire widget.
No five-day forecast, no humidity, no wind speed, no UV index, no radar. Not because they were difficult — Open-Meteo returns all of it, free — but because a new tab is a glance. You want to know whether to take a coat, and that is answered in three words. Everything past that belongs in a weather app you opened on purpose.
Celsius or Fahrenheit, your choice. The reading refreshes at most every half hour.
Where the location comes from
Two ways, and you choose which.
Let it detect once, and the browser hands over approximate coordinates — low accuracy deliberately, since a city is all this needs. Those go to Open-Meteo for the weather and to BigDataCloud’s no-key reverse-geocoding to become a city name. Or skip that entirely and simply type a city: then no coordinates are involved at all, just the name you typed. If detection ever fails, it quietly falls back to letting you type.
Either way there is no account to create and no API key to obtain. Open-Meteo is free and anonymous, which is precisely why MofTab uses it.
The permission you’ll see at install
This is the part most extensions would bury in a policy page, so it gets its own heading instead.
When you install MofTab, Chrome lists a permission that reads detect your physical location. Out of context that is alarming, and the context matters: Chrome’s extension platform does not allow the geolocation permission to be optional. It must be declared up front or not at all — there is no version of this where it appears only once you switch Weather on. That is a platform rule, not a choice MofTab made.
What MofTab does with it is the part it controls, and the answer is nothing — until you enable Weather and choose automatic detection. Never at install. Never for a manual city search. Never in the background for anything else. Weather is off by default, so if you never turn it on, your location is never read at all. The privacy policy sets out exactly when that call happens.
What it doesn’t do
It doesn’t track you. There is no location history, no movement log, nothing assembling a picture of where you have been. A detected location is re-checked at most every six hours, and only changes if you have moved more than fifty kilometres — enough to notice you have flown somewhere, nowhere near enough to follow you across town.
Nothing about your location reaches Moftly. There is no Moftly server involved here at all — your browser talks to the weather services directly. Your chosen place and your unit preference are kept by the browser, and turning Weather off stops all of it.
And it never asks for more than it shows. One place, one reading.
Know whether to take a coat.
InstallFree forever.
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