Remove the new Kit mascot from Firefox completely.
I use Firefox as it is one of the last good browsers that isn't chromium based. However, I use it for work and like a nice clean PROFESSIONAL look.
With the introduction of version 149, I see new cartoonish fox icons pop up all over the place. After a little research it appears to be Kit, the firefox mascot.
Let me be clear, I don't hate the mascot, he's cute. But that is not what I want in a browser. I find his appearance and lack of ability to eliminate him infuriating.
I try to run a firefox in a as minimalistic state as possible. Intruducutions of this character, make the browser feel cartoony and childish. Things I despise in an application. I know many people like him, but I would like the option to not have him appear in the application at all.
I was able to successfully remove him from the certificate warning page setting the flag: security.certerrors.felt-privacy-v1 --> FALSE.
However, I can't find other places to remove this nuisance. Take a look at the attached screenshot. Things like this are not welcome without a way to disable it.
Do you have any documentation or instructions I can use to disable this childish nonsense and restore an adult browser again?
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I have this issue also. The mascot is eyecatching, distracting, and persistantly aggravating no matter what I'm trying to do in the browser. It constantly steals little pieces of my attention, in a way that feels similar to being nagged by unwanted notifications. The artstyle is emphatically (though subjectively) not my taste, and it clashes with the visual design of my desktop/other system theming (including Firefox themes). No other program I use inserts a mascot into the UI like this without any clear option to disable it. And the fact that I can't get rid of it is just making me hate it more and more over time, so it's having the opposite of what I would presume was the intended effect. It's bothering me so much this might be the thing that finally drives me to try one of the forks.
Thank you to bmorgan2 for sharing about the "security.certerrors.felt-privacy-v1" flag in about:config! This helps, even though it doesn't solve the entire problem.
I understand that that this is a forum of volunteers, not developers, but it feels worth asking here regardless, in case anyone happens to be aware of any more about:config flags like "security.certerrors.felt-privacy-v1" that can already be user-configured to get rid of the mascot.
Oh... Setting the "security.certerrors.felt-privacy-v1" flag to false actually seems like it may have solved the problem. The mascot no longer appears in the connection security pop-up (as seen in OP's screenshot) since changing this setting (yay!), so I guess the devs must have fixed that at some point since OP's post.
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