Why in the world is an embedded social networking plugin included in firefox without user consent? Looks like the end of Mozilla!!
Seems like such a clear violation of everything firefox has stood for up to this point. Selling out and embedding spyware like everyone else?? The internet is about to completely die huh?
How do I disable completely this unrequested feature that was stealthily inserted into firefox between the last time I ran the browser?
Uninstall is legitimate, but I'd prefer another option first.
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And what is this unnamed social networking are you referring to? the Hello feature?
With the exception of the OpenH264 video codec Plugin in last short while, Firefox does not come with any Plugins. The Plugins that Firefox uses are not installed in Firefox but are on system.
Also just because you see something in Firefox it does not necessarily mean it came with Firefox.
You obviously do not know what you are talking about. The Hello feature is an addon, as it is obviously not part of any browser functionality. It is not something that can be accessed or removed from that area though. Some strange and annoying pirvacy destroying addon that mozilla decided to force down everyone's throats.
Question stands - how to get rid of it?
You are incorrect. The Hello feature is built into Firefox, it's not an add-on -- not a plugin, not an extension.
Hello is part of a W3C WebRTC API (WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers) that that supports browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without the need of either internal or external plugins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-webrtc-20150210/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRTC
To disable Hello - type about:config in the Location Bar and hit Enter. Use the Search field at the top. Double-click this preference - loop.enabled - to toggle it to false. Then restart Firefox.
jamesfl said
You obviously do not know what you are talking about. The Hello feature is an addon, as it is obviously not part of any browser functionality.
Actually it is you. The Hello feature is built in and not a Extension or a Plugin. If only you mentioned Hello in first place as I would have gave more links on what it is. Also just because you do not want this does not make it spyware as it is not.
Besides links above and this one I posted https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/ there is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/firefox-hello-webrtc
Modified by James
Just so you are correct with terms in future as you referred to Hello as a Plugin then as a Addon. The word Addons (started use back during Firefox 2.0/3.0) does not refer to one thing but a word that groups together the separate Extensions, Plugins, Themes and even search engines, dictionaries.
These are Extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/ Plugins are say ex: Flash Player, Java, Quicktime and are installed on system and not in Firefox.