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How can one suppress the "about:privatebrowsing" window?

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davidra
davidra

Every time I run firefox (always from the command line; I don't run any GUI like Gnome or KDE), Firefox opens a window called "about:privatebrowsing" in addition to the window I asked for. How can I eliminate this window so that it never comes up without recompiling the whole program?

Every time I run firefox (always from the command line; I don't run any GUI like Gnome or KDE), Firefox opens a window called "about:privatebrowsing" in addition to the window I asked for. How can I eliminate this window so that it never comes up without recompiling the whole program?

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dobbelina
dobbelina

I want to know that to. Very annoying indeed.....

cor-el
cor-el
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What is the value of the pref browser.privatebrowsing.dont_prompt_on_enter on the about:config page?

You can open about: pages via the location bar like you open a website.