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How to remove the Feedback button from Firefox 4
The new Firefox 4 Beta has a Feedback button; for some people, that may be an eyesore.
Some people have worse problems, like the one shown in the screenshot above. That's my default FF4 installation, by the way; I just ran it and got this, and it wouldn't budge even when I tried to customize it. The four rows of buttons stay. Only when I run it in Safe Mode it looks fine. Interesting.
Anyway, hopefully most of you have it running fine, and maybe you just want to get rid of that Feedback button. Here's how you do it:
- Click the Firefox button (top-left corner, unless you removed it using Sebastian's tutorial).
- Go to Customize > Add-ons.
- Locate the Test Pilot add-on.
- Click Disable.
Voila, no more Feedback button!
On a personal note, I must say I think disabling this button is a bad idea. Mozilla is running a top-notch usability testing program, and I think they deserve user feedback (because, after all, they just want to make a better browser for all of us). Still, if you really want to disable that button, now you can.
And now on to figuring out how to make those four rows of buttons disappear ...
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAemonyJul 7th 2010 11:17AM
For me it was merely the fact that a custom skin enabled in my previous Firefox installation was still enabled, and screwing up the whole interface in the progress. Either that, or some other add-on are incompatible with the new interface?
AemonyJul 7th 2010 11:19AM
Yes, even enabling a Personas theme screws up the new interface. Probably no old theme are compatible with Firefox 4.
J. EverettJul 7th 2010 12:19PM
Mine did the same thing. I had to disable/remove the Strata4.0 theming I was using from the 3.6 betas.
I really don't mind the Feedback button, though. Its the stupid bookmarks button I don't like. Why not put that in the magic orange Firefox menu button?
Gilbert PalauJul 7th 2010 1:13PM
My Persona's work great. I went and installed the one I had and worked out fine for me. I did try the steps the OP put here but I cant find the Test Pilot addon. So I still have that pesky Feedback button.
I actually like the orange Firefox button on the top left.
Keverdy13Jul 7th 2010 2:19PM
I have the feedback button, but not the four rows of buttons. I just disabled "Feedback 1.0rc1" and it was gone. Maybe that is because this was a new, clean install?
Kevin DJul 7th 2010 5:43PM
If you use the -profilemanager in the target box for the applications properties and create a new blank profile, it looks as it should, the rows of buttons dissapear and you are free to test it out.
TomNicklesJul 7th 2010 7:22PM
I had the four rows of buttons, but I had the aero theme on my other firefox. After I disabled that everything went back to normal, and finally fire fox 4.0 looks nice, not odd and frankensteinish lol
DeoWulfJul 7th 2010 10:10PM
Disable any themes you have and revert to the default packaged theme to get rid of the buttons.
mcruzierJul 7th 2010 11:08PM
Yeah need to disable addons/themes from within firefox 3.6 beforehand ;)
aledJul 8th 2010 4:49AM
You can enable incompatible addons in FF4.0 Beta, with the Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.5 by Mozilla, test what extensions still works, and give feedback to the developers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/
GreyJul 10th 2010 2:38PM
I was able to get rid of it using Customize > Toolbar layout... and just dragging it to the toolbars menu. How do you get rid of the bookmarks button?
clemJul 12th 2010 4:40AM
tools -> addon -> feedback addon -> remove