[Tip] Disable or Remove “Firefox View” Tab Icon from Toolbar
Mozilla Firefox 106 and later versions come with a brand new feature called “Firefox View“. This new feature displays a small Firefox icon or pinned tab at the top-left corner or the beginning of the tab bar or title bar of Firefox window.
When you click on the Firefox View icon, it opens its main page as an overlay tab over the current tab which contains list of recently closed tabs on the current device and tabs running in other devices using same Firefox account. It also allows users to select and use Colorways themes to customize the look-n-feel of Firefox.
Following screenshot shows Firefox View icon in titlebar and its main page running in Firefox web browser:
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Although it’s a nice additional feature in Firefox but some users may find the newly added Firefox View icon unnecessary or annoying and may want to get rid of this extra icon.
Fortunately it’s very easy to remove the Firefox View icon from Firefox toolbar.
Quick and Easy Way to Remove Firefox View Icon or Tab from Toolbar
You can just right-click on Firefox View icon and select “Remove from Toolbar” option from the context menu.
It’ll immediately delete Firefox View icon from the toolbar.
PS: You can restore the Firefox View icon in future by right-clicking on the Firefox toolbar and selecting “Customize Toolbar” option. Now drag-n-drop Firefox View icon to Firefox toolbar.
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Expert Way to Completely Disable Firefox View Feature and Toolbar Icon
Mozilla team has also provided a hidden secret preference or flag for advanced Firefox users to completely disable Firefox View feature and its icon.
Following steps will help you in permanently disabling and removing Firefox View icon and the whole feature in your Firefox web browser:
1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. It’ll show you a warning message, click on “Accept the Risk and Continue” button. It’ll open Firefox’s hidden secret advanced configuration page i.e. about:config page.
2. Now type firefox-view in Search filter box and you’ll see following preferences in the window:
browser.firefox-view.feature-tour
browser.firefox-view.view-count
browser.tabs.firefox-view
browser.tabs.firefox-view.logLevel
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.firefox-view.feature-tour
3. We need to modify the browser.tabs.firefox-view preference to disable Firefox View feature and icon.
Double-click on the preference browser.tabs.firefox-view and set its value to false. Alternatively, you can click on the Toggle icon given next to the preference name.
That’s it. It’ll completely disable and remove the entire Firefox View feature and its toolbar icon in Firefox browser.
PS: In future, if you decide to restore Firefox View feature in Firefox, set the above mentioned preference to true again.
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Glad that is a way to turn this feature off! What an annoying feature!
Awesome, thank you! Firefox love jamming in new features that ugly up the UI, lol
Thank you. We already have a tab syncing option. Mozilla marketing team at it again, just making things confusing for users. Not sure if this is the same Sync feature re-branded or just an additional semi-redundant feature. Either way, this bloat is unwanted and unneeded.
Thanks for this useful guide, this Firefox View thingy is simply too intrusive and annoying, it needs to be optional and the browser should be shipped with the feature disabled by default.
nice tutorial
As somebody here already said: Mozilla’s marketing at it again.
But the thing that still twists everybody’s noddle:
Will just removing the icon like this also disable the logging (and transmission) of those websites that you visited?