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How to get rid of blue onboarding message box and icon on a new tab?

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jhgarrison
jhgarrison

In a new tab there's an annoying Firefox logo and blue box that says "Firefox is all new. See what you can do". I clicked it and did the tour, and then customized my new tab preferences, but it remains on every new tab.

How do I make it go away? There doesn't seem to be a preference to remove it.

In a new tab there's an annoying Firefox logo and blue box that says "Firefox is all new. See what you can do". I clicked it and did the tour, and then customized my new tab preferences, but it remains on every new tab. How do I make it go away? There doesn't seem to be a preference to remove it.

Modified by jhgarrison

Chosen solution

Figured it out. The name of the icon onboarding-overlay-button-icon suggested I should look in about:config for the word "onboard", which led to the option browser.onboarding.enabled. Setting that to `false` removed the blue box and icon.

Should the onboarding get disabled once you've clicked on the tour?

Does this need to have a bug filed?

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WestEnd
WestEnd

Screen of what your talking about?

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Click on the "gear" in the upper-right corner of the New Tab page and deselect Snippets at the bottom of the New Tab Preferences - Choose what you see on this page list.

jhgarrison
jhgarrison Question owner

I already have Snippets disabled. In fact I have everything disabled. I've attached a screenshot.

Curiously, if I make the Firefox window small enough the blue box and logo disappear. As I reduce the width, first the box disappears and is replaced with a blue dot at the top right of the icon. If I continue reducing the width, as I get to around 960px (width of the content area), the icon disappears. Since my monitors are both 2560x1440 I usually have Firefox a lot wider than that.

Ctrl+U (View Source) on the new tab shows nothing interesting, but opening the Developer Tools shows this: 

   ...
 <body class="activity-stream">
   <button aria-label="Firefox is all new. See what you can do!" id="onboarding-overlay-button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-controls="onboarding-overlay-dialog" class="onboarding-speech-bubble">
     <img id="onboarding-overlay-button-icon" role="presentation" src="chrome://branding/content/icon64.png">
     <img id="onboarding-overlay-button-watermark-icon" role="presentation" src="resource://onboarding/img/watermark.svg">
   </button>
   ...

Modified by jhgarrison

jhgarrison
jhgarrison Question owner

Chosen Solution

Figured it out. The name of the icon onboarding-overlay-button-icon suggested I should look in about:config for the word "onboard", which led to the option browser.onboarding.enabled. Setting that to `false` removed the blue box and icon.

Should the onboarding get disabled once you've clicked on the tour?

Does this need to have a bug filed?

Modified by jhgarrison