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YES! No more Pocket button sticking out like a sore thumb!
It literally takes 5 seconds to remove it.
But you can't remove pocket from firefox just disable it. Given that it wa also a close source binary blob that made firefox not completely open source I'm glad it's going.
No time, need to shit post
Wasn't it possible to remove that button?
Possible: yes
Convenient: no
It's literally in the same place as all other UI customising, though. I consider that as convenient as it gets.
"Oh no, I have to move the mouse for about 10 cm!"
with every fucking install on every machine. for years.
a waste of space and time. always has been. but did moz listen? no. because fanboys like you mock the user and give them the confidence to do stupid shit. lame CEOs, failed TB, fxa servers...geez the list of absolute wrong directions moz went is so long.
praising freedom and a decentralized internet, but store links, passwords etc on their shit american servers. the only good idea moz has was to start coding a browser...after that it just went downhill...according to the decline of users of the years. what is their market share today and why?
Multiplied by all the other annoyances you have to turn off, via either gui or
about:config, each and every time. I feel you.I hop machines fairly frequently, use multiple browsing profiles, and often create discardable profiles, so I eventually just went ahead and spent some time tracing all the
about:configequivalents of the settings that I typically change every time and then put them in auser.jsfile that I can just drop into my profile directory....which is pretty smart. but many of my installs unfortunately include osx and even still windows. not for me, but but for work and ppl that want alternatives. and i just dont have the time for these shenanigans every time. and as much as i hate it to say: a chrome install feels cleaner. so for myself i rsync my ffprofile folder to a remote storage. but i will consider your method now. thanks.
My
user.jsfile is entirely platform independent. I use it on Linux, Windows and even used it on my work provided Macbook. FYI:user.jsonly contains the settings you want to change, it's not the wholeprefs.jsfile. It's just 63 lines.I agree that chrome feels cleaner and needs a lot less fiddling to get right, but chrome is effectively dead for me. I switched to firefox for much more important reasons than a few UI annoyances.
Wasn't it in about:config? Or maybe it used to be.
Yes, to completely turn it off, it's an
about:configsetting:extensions.pocket.enabledRemoving it from the toolbar just hides it, but keeps it running.
Could have been back when the button was part of the address bar. But that was forever ago.
That's what I'm thinking of them. Good on them for removing it in the meantime.
?
You can just right click on it and hit "remove from toolbar." That's all it takes.
Putting it back in my toolbar for the purposes of taking this screenshot was actually more clicks.
You can actually do this with most, but not all, of the toolbar items. You can even 86 the refresh button that way if you're feeling truly perverse.
On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket
And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature...
In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features. If you click "no", it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in. Anything beyond that is inherently predatory.
Ideally, that pop-up wouldn't even exist. They could just have a collective "don't bother me again" checkbox on every non-essential notification, so you can easily disable it the first time they become relevant. If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.
This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.
Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That's precisely how it works.
Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with "Your Edge was updated" and a list of new things.
If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it's about completely new things - it's a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs...?
Yes, Microsoft is especially bad in this regard. For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending. They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen. And youtube premium, oh boy.
This is... not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a "hey, here's a new feature you might want to try out".
Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it's my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.
Not speaking of edge here, but the Microsoft fabric/power platform. They tried to sell me some feature for months and eventually i missclicked and started the trial. Now they are notifying that the trial ends in x days and they’ve been extending it so it never ends