new annoyance
How can i disable the new annoyance, double tab view, what's with that? Can i delete the feature, yes or no?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "double tab view." The only new thing I'm aware of relating to tabs is a new Show All Tabs icon that looks like a folder and shows between the New Tab + and the window minimise icons.
If it is that you are referring to you can get rid of it but not in a simple way. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1466632#answer-1678349
Do you mean the thumbnail image that you see if you hover a tab?
There are two Boolean (true/false) prefs in about:config to control what to show when you hover a tab. This pref controls whether to enable this new hover feature or only show the legacy tooltip with the title.
- browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled
This pref controls whether to show a thumbnail or a two line tooltip with title and URL.
- browser.tabs.hoverPreview.showThumbnails
The latter can be controlled via "Settings -> General -> Tabs".
I found browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled and there is no delete or disable in Advanced Preferences. So it looks like i am stuck with this add on. Still can't figure out why it's needed. Thanks for your reply.
Showing the thumbnail can be controlled via "Settings -> General -> Tabs -> Show an image preview when you hover on a tab".
I did that suggestion and it didn't change.
Note that it isn't certain for how long you can disable a new feature like in this case "Tab Hover Preview" as they will likely remove support for this control pref like usually is done when they consider a new feature stable enough.
- 1914155 - Remove the browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled pref
wagda747 said
I found browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled and there is no delete or disable in Advanced Preferences. So it looks like i am stuck with this add on.
Next to browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled will be the word "true." Double-click it and it will change to false and your troubles will be over.