I don’t want a PLAY MUTE PAUSE not even a CLOSE button. Especially NOT when they have their own internal state for then they choose to appear and disappear.

I don’t want to pay attention to them, I don’t want to have to look for them, I don’t want them getting in my way any more.

If I want to close a tab, I middle click it ! I already have global mute controls, I don’t need an extra volume control, I don’t have “tabs making unwanted sounds” problem because I have “Go To Sound Tab” addon installed, so I can easily find any tabs that makes sound and mute it correctly, without a extra, unneeded layer of muting (tab muting, versus app muting versus player muting, that is too many muting options, I don’t want to use tab muting personnally so I want these buttons out of here !)

I don’t want to have to rely on running violentmonkey script engine on top of my already sluggish browser when I barely have 6615 open tabs.

I want to disable the feature at the root, inside firefox, not patch up webpages like dark reader does.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh h!!!

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Firefox is meant to be usable by people that have no idea what a middle click or an addon is. You are the exception, not the majority

    Menu > Help > More troubleshooting information > Profile Folder > Open Folder

    Edit your userChrome.css file:

    .tab-close-button.close-icon {display:none !important;}
.tab-audio-button {display: none !important;}
    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      How are people who don’t even know their scroll wheel is also a button supposed to figure out something that complicated ?

      Why isn’t that just a checkbox on the settings page ?
      [X] Please make browser tabs harder to use by putting more buttons on it !

      Why is that imagined to be a “complicated weird thing people don’t know they’d even want to do”
      I wish software was more respectful of users’ abilities instead of treating everyone has grandma’s tech literacy level and make decisions for them !

      There was no userChrome.css btw
      So I made the file and put that code in
      There has been no effects so I will have to reboot the browser.
      So I’m pressing “reply” now so I don’t lose this message …

      After restart

      It only worked partially
      I suspect youtube will eventually change something, and the rest of it will come back too

      Thanks for trying though, but -> Firefox, this ISN’T good enough !

      • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        You turned what I said on its head. Nobody unskilled is doing this, and the buttons are there exactly because most people want them there and know nothing else. Including me, that knows about the shortcuts, prefer going caveman and click buttons on a screen. You are overestimating the base tech literacy of most humans, as most people have absolutely zero idea how to reach the settings page.

        Try this one instead for the X button, before the audio button rule:

        .tabbrowser-tab  .tab-close-button { display:none !important; }
        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          Well, I’m accidentally closing and muting tabs all the time !
          You’re saying “everyone wants this” who wants to have no idea why the sound isn’t playing for half an hour ?
          I think it’s reasonable that such sharp edges should be dealt with.
          But everywhere on the internet where someone complains about this is told “just do some registry hack wizardry” and it never gets solved !