Is Firefox's new widget feature revealing your city and time zone location?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
June 12, 2026
FranklyFlawless:
> My Firefox configuration is likely different from yours, my homepage and new tabs are all blank pages.
I believe this is new feature that is being rolled out progressively like Firefox VPN.
I did not enable it, and I can only see it in one of my FF profiles, and it’s the one that has Firefox VPN.
nubeovejita27:
> The weather card can be based on the IP/VPN location, but the time widget can still use the browser/OS time zone exposed by JavaScript, so it is not surprising if your local zone appears first.
From a privacy company, it’s a litle bit creepy. I’ve had fingerpinting off on both my FF profiles for years, so that my timezone is not exposed to other sites. I am a little surprised that FF would reaveal it to me. Also, there are many cities that share the same time zone. For example, the Panama City, New York city, and Miami are in the same time zone. Suppose I live in Miami. Firefox’s widget is showing me the correct time but also the correct city.
And although it is showing me multiple time zone across different countries and cities, the ones that corresponds to my city appears first, and my city is named.
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