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Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

Simplify — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:57:12 GMT

"Picture in a picture". I don't want it. "Toggle reader view". I don't want it. "Add tabs" to taskbar. Please no! I am too old to change. I need to de-clutter. Not make more. If this growth of confusion continues I will need to find a more basic browser. I do not have the time or energy. to find one. "Make a Firefox account" no thank you. "Save my passwords" Thanks for not making that a default. Simplify the default browser. Make it so people have the ability to add all the confusing stuff they want. But please do not force any of it on me.

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

Agentvirtuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:34:01 GMT

Bonjour

You can try

Go to configuration editor for Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

Picture-in-Picture in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-firefox

Configuration editor for Firefox
Enter a search term media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.urlbar-button.enabled
You can double-click on the preference to set the value to false

Firefox Reader View
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages

Configuration editor for Firefox
Enter a search term reader.parse-on-load.enabled
You can double-click on the preference to set the value to false

Use web apps in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/web-apps-firefox-windows

Configuration editor for Firefox
Enter a search term browser.taskbarTabs.enabled
You can double-click on the preference to set the value to false

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

dftf — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:12:37 GMT

To turn some of these off:

Add tabs to Taskbar: in the web-address bar, type about:config and press ENTER. Accept any warning, and search for browser.taskbarTabs.enabled . Double-click that entry to set it to "false".

Picture-in-Picture: in the same about:config screen, change "media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.urlbar-button.enabled" to "false"

Toggle Reader View: in the same about:config screen, try changing "reader.parse-on-load.enabled" to "false". I leave that icon on myself, as I sometimes use that view, so can't say for sure it works.

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

Agentvirtuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:56:26 GMT

Toggle Reader View

reader.parse-on-load.enabled, default value, true

About, icon.
You can try an code userChrome.css

#reader-mode-button-icon{display:none!important;}

Tip: If a page is available in Reader View, you can also access Reader View from the Menu bar when the Menu bar is enabled, by clicking View then Enter Reader View. Alternatively, you can press the key F9 to toggle Reader View.

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

grundt — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:24:47 GMT

Thanks for sharing ways to hide these icons, but I think the point being made is that the decision to start placing unremovable (without jumping through hoops) icons into the url field was a bad design choice and needs to be reconsidered. Firefox has a customizable toolbar, use it!!

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

dftf — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:03:15 GMT

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Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

MozillaUser1234 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:50:13 GMT

This is exactly the issue. The solutions are not native.

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

MozillaUser1234 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:51:19 GMT

This is true. Wish it could be stripped down to a basic old browser again.

Re: Confusing clutter of unremovable icons growing in the URL/ task bar

MozillaUser1234 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:52:38 GMT

Also having these issues. Really wish we could just have these things at the very least in the settings to toggle off. We are end users not trained fighter pilots with all these gizmos and clutter.