Firefox Weather Widget not being blocked by Betterfox

[FifthWit]

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

I have attempted the following troubleshooting suggestions:

• [x] The issue persists when using Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode.
• [x] Disabled DNS-level content blocking (AdGuard Home, NextDNS, Control D, RethinkDNS, PiHole, etc), cleared my DNS cache, and used my ISP's DNS resolver (if applicable).
• [x] Cleared website data, restarted Firefox, and my issue persists.
• [x] I have created a new profile. The issue persists when using the current user.js file on GitHub. (Must be in a new profile and a new user.js!)

REPORT

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is. A new FireFox feature (for me) added a widget with the weather at the top left of the new tab screen on a fresh install To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Download FireFox'
2. Install BetterFox
3. Open New Tab
4. Look at the top left and it should have a weather widget in specific mine is sponsered by AccuWeather

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. The Widget would be gone along with all the data it takes Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem. Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 Home

• Browser: FireFox

• Version: 128.0.3 (64-bit)

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here. unsure if everyone has this but at least on the most recent version its appearing for me

[yokoffing]

Documented, but doesn’t seem to be enabled in stable just yet: https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/abe7e9d4d8620d66577c6b45cfb4ebdcbbfbf285/Peskyfox.js#L290-L291

You can still turn it off in about:config or adding it to your personal user.js.

There also should be UI for this in the settings, if there isn't already.

[yokoffing]

This finally landed for me in today's update v. 130.

[winter-again]

Not sure if helpful, but (in ref. to the commit above) I had to specify browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showWeather as false too to get the weather widget to go away.

[yokoffing]

@winter-again I've tested on two systems with vanilla Firefox stable and once in Nightly, and I only had to use browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showWeather. I've also confirmed that this is the pref that changes if you disable the Weather widget from the new tab page.

system.showWeather removes it altogether as an option from the gear icon on the new tab page (hides it in the UI).