Anyone know how to block annoying menu notifications in Nightly?

Kallioapina@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml – 23 points –

As the title says, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to block these annoying menu notifications/dots in android Firefox Nightly?

They happen in regular android Firefox too, but I was hoping there would be some setting in Nightly that could disable them.

Edit: some typos

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Settings > advanced > open links in apps

Set it to never and the blue dots should disappear (the instal option doesn't go away from the menu though).

THANK YOU very much, that did it! One more little annoyance less in one's day.

I don't think you can block those, they exist specifically to make you aware that there's a PWA for this page.

God damn it, I really hope thats not the case. Fuck em and fuck people who push useless PWA'S.

PWAs are amazing IMO, less apps for every shit thing 😁

@Carighan @Kallioapina
I agree that Site Specific Browsers (SSB's) aka Personal Web Apps (PWA's) are much preferred over hunting for binary operating system specific app's.

The removal of this functionality in Firefox 86 was just one of the many decisions that is contributing to Firefox's catastrophic fall in usage.

I believe what the OP is referring to is _installable_ web apps, which brings the worst of both worlds, being both a web page and an operating system specific binary app

Yep I agree, world needs less apps, but also less PWA's. Regular browser interfaces can work well too.

At least nightly supports the about:config.
Haven't found anything for those notifications yet, but there might be something in there.

Yep, thats why I'm calling for people with knoweledge to share.

On a sidenote, does anyone know a site or a document that would list and explain the settings in about:config? Sure, you can find some partial lists and articles from the web, but there must be more comprehensive materials on them too. I havent been able to find such documents.