How to disable tab buttons such as the X close button and youtube play/mute buttons ?
I use middle-click to close the tabs and move and select tabs around a lot and often misclick on a button by accident and I find that really annoying and tedious to always have to scrutinize the buttons before clicking.
I want to hide all of these buttons.
I have tried userchrome and etc... user scripts, that does not work reliably.
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There's nothing more reliable than custom CSS.
You might need to ask around some specific communities for assistance though (like FirefoxCSS on reddit for example).
Thanks I wish there was a proper option to disable this, I often click them by accident and now every time I touch the tabs, I need to be careful, it's really irritating and slowing me down. I don't even need the close button since I have the habit to close them with middle click.
I traced where do these buttons come from
They start here in class MozTabbrowserTab
For instance the close button is
<image class="tab-close-button close-icon" role="button" data-l10n-id="tabbrowser-close-tabs-button" data-l10n-args='{"tabCount": 1}' keyNav="false"/>
The handling of click events for the buttons is in these fonctions, https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/browser/components/tabbrowser/content/tab.mjs#L580-L775 on_click(event) { on_mouseup() { on_mousedown(event) {
The close button handler in particular https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/browser/components/tabbrowser/content/tab.mjs#L727-L745
And the visual appearance is here https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/browser/themes/shared/tabbrowser/tabs.css
I think maybe patching the tabs.css might have a way from at least disabling the close buttons
But disabling buttons like Youtube play/pause is going to be something else.
There should be an option for a full lockdown of the tab to make then only have fav icon and title and nothing else
And there should be a way to remove only certain elements reliably I'm not against any kind of tab activity, but I don't want close buttons and I don't want youtube buttons
I have added the userchrome text to disable them, but they come back ~sometimes~ for instance, before the tab loads, is in a discarded state, the buttons are sometimes gone, but after a reload they come back. It is like the userchrome settings are getting overridden on reloads.
I don't want to keep having to fight this system, I want to reliably turn of the things I don't want, or turn off the entire thing if that's the only to make this stop !
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