Once installed, your homepage, new tab, and omnibar will become the ultimate AccuWeather experience. Enjoy forecasts, weather videos, news and more. Stay updated on current weather conditions for the location(s) of your choice.
Features offered by the extension:
• *NEW* Change your background color
• *NEW* Enhanced omnibar search feature for AccuWeather forecasts, news, and videos
• Check the current temperature or get hourly and daily forecasts for multiple locations through the extension icon menu or new tab page.
• Receive relevant weather updates through lightboxes and notifications while browsing the web.
• Have full control over your background, locations, notification preferences, and specialized forecasts in the Settings menu.
• Search the web using Bing on the new tab page.
Enjoy searching the AccuWeather website through the omnibar as well as having access to the most popular web pages with simple commands. To quickly search the website, simply use the omnibar, type “weather”, then press the spacebar or tab key and enter the keywords you want to search:
• “forecast” to go to the local weather page, based on your selected location
• “news” to go to the latest weather news page
• “video” to go to the weather videos page
Permissions that we are using:
• “Display notifications” – this allows us to provide you alerts via notification while you are surfing the web
• “Replace the page you see when opening a new tab” – this allows us to provide the features mentioned above and relevant weather information every time you open a new tab page.
• “Change your search settings to “weather.srch0.com”
This allows us to provide a custom search function that enables you to search directly on accuweather.com and on the web using Bing.
• “Read and change your data on mb.accuweather.com” –This permission allows us to access the website we own and manage in order to provide the content and features for the extension.
What data we collect: To deliver weather information and time-sensitive alerts, we collect your IP address, information about your browser and device, and statistics on how you interact with alerts and the extension.
By clicking “Add to Chrome” and installing Weather Forecast powered by AccuWeather you accept and agree to abide by our privacy policy (https://mb.accuweather.com/privacy) and eula (https://mb.accuweather.com/eula), which can be found on our new tab page.
Help
If you want to remove this extension please follow simple steps:
1. Right click on the extension icon in the top right of the Chrome browser.
2. Click the “Remove from Chrome” button
For assistance or feedback, please click the “Send Feedback” link in the Settings section on the extension icon menu or email us at [email protected]
Like others, I find the forced and permanent override of the New Tab/startup page and search engine an unacceptable level of intrusion. There are less intrusive alternatives to get the current temperature in the info bar, and given the lack of responsiveness to this particular complaint by the developer, it does not appear they are interested in addressing this issue in the foreseeable future.
Read the reviews. Read the Chrome Store Permissions. It takes control of your browser by changing new tabs, hijacking search, giving it notification power, and (the worst) reading your browsing history (even in InPrivate/Incognito mode). I like the Accuweather app for Android. I do not like how this extension seizes power unnecessarily. You do not need to collect all of this information–you choose to collect it for your own purposes. You have been telling people in these Reviews for over a year now that you would take their privacy concerns under consideration as you “work to improve the product.” Yet, you have not changed your practices regarding this extension. Under the “Privacy Practices” tab in the Chrome Store it reads: “The publisher has not provided any information about the collection or usage of your data.” It collects your searches and can record your travels on the internet. Too bad. From the reviews, it appears there is a internet community that would like to trust you when you are inside their browser. And, so far, it appears that you are not interested in acquiring the trust of that community. These are all just my opinions. I am sure you will find enough people who love to be dazzled and don’t mind their personal information and behaviors being possibly monetized for gain.
I love this extention! 🤗
I don’t mind the homepage changing at all, because I am installing the extention in Opera which always has the default homepage nevertheless, I don’t need it. Opera already provides a section for the weather provided from none-other than you. 😉
Not many pepole find anything wrong with the homepage except for the search-engine. (As a matter of fact on MY homepage I can’t change it away from Google!) Maybe add a setting to change the search-engine away from Bing? 🤔
Honestly I don’t mind Bing, it’s just a search-engine! Nothing makes a search-engine “special” or “prefered” really, it just provides you search results. However I think maybe adding a option to change it would help with your marketing/selling. 😉
Well, the design and use of AccuWeather which I enjoy is the only positive.
I’d ask for more customization though! Upon install this changed my default browser to bing and the search bar seems only have it as choice. Sure have that as default – but at least let me change this option once installed and add my own links below search bar. A plus if some RSS feed of my choice comes with it too.
All that and this extension would for sure rise in ratings overall.
I want the weather. Not a hijacked New Tab page. Not f**king Bing. Just as screwed up as the Accuweather Android app that they broke and won’t fix.
Too many permissions! I can not trust it as a professional user.
Total garbage. Why on earth does it need to be my search engine? Not only that it prevents me from changing to a different one. If you have this, uninstall it. Otherwise look elsewhere.
Too many permissions and you are changing my search engine. I don’t like it.
Too many permissions. You don’t need my browsing history and I don’t want my search settings changed.
Everything about this makes life easier. Weather – Check! Good search results – Check! Great feature too is tracking COVID…. ! Truly glad I downloaded it.
Honestly, I love that this adds weather to my new tab page. In the past, I feel like this was unused space in Chrome. Now I always have some good info to plan my day, not to mention a reason to hit up my family about their #$%@ weather back home! Five stars!
Beautiful design. 5 stars! Thank you Accuweather!
Such a great UX. My new favorite extension highly recommend
I love the weather and being able to see my local weather quickly is a great way to start my day or when I need to step outside!
I have the android app, and this lets me see the weather and the forecast every time I log in. Love the backgrounds too, way better than the default chrome background.
Great looking app and something I will be utilizing everyday! This is an extension that serves a useful purpose, great work.
Hijacked my browser. About 1/2 of the time when I searched and then went to a site, clicked on a link to a second site, and then want to hit the back arrow to go back to the first site, the arrow is grayed out and instead, I have to reopen the weather extension and start my search over again. It is beyond frustrating! I didn’t mind the extension always opening for a new tab but only allowing me to surf forward but not backward is ridiculous! Listen to your reviewers!
The app itself is great, it would get 5 stars if it gave me the option to turn off the new tab page. I’ll try it again once that’s fixed.
love that it’s useful and easy to use!
Absolutely do not like the change of homepage.
Like some other reviewers, I really like the extension and the quick access to weather data as well as a visual display of the temperature.
I had to rate it two stars (and turn it off) because the fact that you can’t opt out of it changing your new page action. I live by the new page and selecting from my most used pages on that new tab page. Accuweather is going to stay turned off until that changes.
Love the extension, ABSOLUTELY HATE that it overrides and changes my New Tab Page. Uninstalled. Too bad. I like the mobile app, I liked the extension and I like the consistency of using both in the absence of Dark Sky but I live and breath by my new tab page so overriding that is a non-starter. Take that out and I will try the extension again.
Nice looking app.
This app is rare one that doesn’t kill my normal browsing flow.