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Does anyone knows how to eliminate the Recommendations Window in Add-ons manager? The about:config setting I believe I used for Windows 10 (and still works) do not work for me in Windows 11.

Bo

 

dont use switches in about:config, those have side effects you dont want

userChrome.css

Code:

    .category button[is="discover-button"],
    #categories button[is="discover-button"]
    {
        display: none !important;
    }

 

Thanks Brummelchen, unfortunately it did not work for me.

If you know the switch in about:config, please post it.

I have another annoyance. Ever since Firefox started installing plugins (Open H264 and Widevine), I have been uninstalling them. Never used them. But now in W11, I am constantly getting the message that I need to enable DRM in order to play some content on the page. I like to get rid of that warning. Does anyone know how to get rid of the warning?



Bo

 

have you set

Code:

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

to true?

config, maybe this one
extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled

oh, my bad, has to be in userContent.css, because it concerns a website (about pages and treated as webpages, not firefox elements.

that switch is usable since v68 or earlier,, but i have in mind that it has side effect to this about page, i dont have a reference. but i used that switched as someone else mentioned side effects, so i switshed to css.
but i may be that there are no effect any more, this switch is about 6 years old.

 

In about:config type "extensions.getAddons.showPane". Create a new boolean key and set it as "false". This will get rid of the main recommendation section.

To disable recommendations in the extension and themes page, in about:config toggle "extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled" to "false".

 

Hi Raza, Brummelchen. I already have created and implemented those settings.

The settings I created are this:

exextensions.getAddons.showPane to false
extensions.htmlaboutaddons.discover.enabled
extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled

This are old settings. They work in my W10. I remember at one time, the settings did not take effect until a few hours after I did them. I implemented "extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled" yesterday. This one is the only one of those settings that I am using at this time in my W10, and it does get rid of the whole Recommendations Window. Just a few minutes ago I implemented the other two, as of yet, Recommendations is still in place.

Thanks.

Bo

 

What about the "Enable DRM thing". Any ideas?

Bo

 

That is odd! I just tested it with a fresh install of portable Firefox on Windows 11 OS, and after setting the above two options all I did was restart Firefox and the recommendations were gone.

Try this: Delete "extensions.getAddons.showPane", restart Firefox and then recreate "extensions.getAddons.showPane" set to False, and then restart Firefox.

I watch Netflix on my Firefox so I have never disabled DRM. You may need to use a custom CSS.

Here is what I got from the web:

 

Hi Raza, I will try deleting and recreating "extensions.getAddons.showPane" and see what happens. What I am thinking is maybe this settings conflict with another setting that I use. I have been using css for a very long time, perhaps something in css conflicts with the settings related to eliminating Recommendations panel.

Regarding ....notification[value="drmContentDisabled"] { display: none !important; } it looks promising. I will try it later and come back. Thanks.

Edit: Hi Raza, the code you found did not help. Thanks, it's OK.

Bo

 

exextensions.getAddons.showPane is not usable, its not listed in searchfox.

nightly
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-centr...egexp=false&q=exextensions.getAddons.showPane

stable
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-relea...egexp=false&q=exextensions.getAddons.showPane

DRM means the widevine plugin. if you have installed the EME version then widevine is installed afterwards.
means you can watch copyrighted media, a lot of news pages uses drm, this is not bad, its recommended
no drm -> no video/audio on such pages

 

@Brummelchen I don't use plugins. See post 5857.

Bo

 

widvine and OpenH264 are the only official used plugins. if you dont not see theam you have installed the EME version. pretty simple, aint it? anyhow, of you confirm the question widvine is installed although EME, true logic.
to note: EME is not always usefull, to many prejudice for both.
but, as shown you can blank such messages. the issue remains. there is no bad for those 2 plugins whatever aluhelmet fitted uses want to tell you.

 

Brummelchen, it's not that I don't see them, it is that I don't have them. I uninstalled them. I always do. Not using plugins has been an important part of my security since around.....2010. I use the about:config setting below to uninstall them:

media.gmp-provider.enabled to false



Bo

 

You have to create this key. It is not present by default in Firefox code, so you will not find it if you are searching for it. Once created it removes the recommendation category that is usually the first category listed in the left side column on the "about:addons" page.

 

exextensions has a typo, of course.
I hope this was a typo in bo elam's post only, and the correct preference was created in about:config.
Correct is: extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled
It was mentioned by Firefox Support moderator cor-el, 4/13/22:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1374160#answer-1497289
I haven't tried it myself.

 

Yes, it was typo error. But double checking I just found out that I also made the error in about:config. That is why the setting was not working for me. Good (and stupendous) eye. Thanks.

So in the end, this setting below alone is doing the trick for me:

extensions.getAddons.showPane

Bo