[HowTo] Undo Firefox feature changes

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As Firefox introduces changes in order to appeal new users, some current users might prefer the prior behaviors. Here is a selection of changed features and how to undo / work around them.

88.0 : “View Image” is replaced by “Open Image in New Tab”

:star: You can vote to revert the feature there: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-bring-back-quot-view-image-quot/idi-p/2688

98.0 : Files are downloaded by default

  • In the preferences, in General > Applications, change the action for the given content types.
    • :star2: Since 101.0: a setting right below the known content type list now allows to chose the default action for unknown content types.
  • :star2: Since 102.0: In order to use the system temporary folder when opening files, instead of the download folder, change browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir to true in about:config.

109.0 : Extensions button cannot be managed like other toolbar buttons

  • In about:config, change extensions.unifiedExtensions.enabled to false, then restart Firefox. This option was removed in version 111.0.

:star: You can vote to revert the feature here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/please-let-us-move-the-new-extensions-button-into-the-overflow/idi-p/22979

131.0: You can not completely disable the hovering tab preview bubble

  • You can disable the image preview when hovering a tab from the General Settings.
    You can alternatively set browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to false in about:config
  • You can disable completely the preview bubble (Title+URL preview) by setting browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to false in about:config.
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Extensions button is back in Nightly as they have disabled the preference:

You can disable the image preview when hovering a tab from the Settings, but you can NOT disable the Title+URL preview bubble from the Settings, you need to do it from about:config. Set the following to FALSE (setting only the first one actually works, the second is only for the image preview you can disable from the Settings):

browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.hoverPreview.showThumbnails

I don’t know if it has hit FF stable yet, but it has been in FF Nightly for at least a few weeks now. There is no about:config setting to remove the “All Tabs” button in Tab bar. I won’t see it in Stable which I use rarely because I already have the modification in userChrome.css for that profile as well.

I have the unified extension modification here as well:

#unified-extensions-button { 
display: none !important; 
}
 
/* Hide "All Tabs" button when the tab bar isn't overflowing */
#tabbrowser-tabs:not([overflow="true"]) ~ #alltabs-button {
    display: none !important;
}

Yes they decided to remove the ability to hide this button because " There’s likely a small but opinionated minority of users who had set this pref to false" (speaking about browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled = false) 1916622 - Remove the browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled pref

Also I don’t think your CSS is “correct” for the current situation, there is no overflowing anymore they removed that, it is always on now as per the latest changes. Just now need:

#alltabs-button {
    display: none !important;
}
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Thank you. I fixed my userChrome. css with the change and it is working well.

New in Firefox Nightly 134: Address Bar Updates (search)
To revert to the old style, just start typing and your choices appear rather than the new dropdown style:

In about config:
set browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride to false