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Display Weather Reports in Your Web Browser with AniWeather

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mostly-sunny The other day I went looking for a good weather reporting tool for the Chrome web browser. I remembered using an addon named AniWeather in Firefox and wondered if there was a similar extension for Chrome. I was amazed to find that AniWeather is now available in Google’s Chrome web browser.

Once you have AniWeather set up, you’ll be able to see the current outside temperature in a little icon next to the address bar.

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Clicking on the icon displays a very nice looking animated weather report.

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You’ll discover that there are tons of options for the display of the weather and it even allows you to set multiple locations. The actual weather data is pulled from the famous weather.com website, and you can use links in the AniWeather report to see more information at weather.com.

You can find this cool extension in the Chrome Extensions Gallery or at the author’s website, AniWeather.com. The Firefox addon is available at the author’s website and the Firefox Addons gallery.

For those of you using Internet Explorer, the closest thing to this extension is the Weather Channel Toolbar. It’s good but not nearly as nice as the Firefox and Chrome addons.

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For Opera web browser, there are several widgets that display weather. I haven’t looked closely, but so far I haven’t seen any that display reports inside the browser.

Now you can check the weather while you are surfing the net. The problem you’ll have is pulling yourself away to take advantage of the sunny days.

Be sure to take a look at all of the other Chrome Extensions and Firefox Addons we’ve written about.

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  1. Aluminum Laptop Case on March 23rd, 2010 at 9:59 am #

    I tried using something like this in iGoogle, but eventually I got logged out and forgot all about it. I would like to find a good weather firefox addon though. Being in a rainy area I would want one that displays actual weather instead of just the temperature.

  2. orumcek stand rollup on March 23rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm #

    This is really good expansion, so i don't have to look for another website..

  3. Orumcek-Stand on June 11th, 2010 at 8:37 am #

    This is a really nice plugin.