Disable Profile-Badge

[Schneeeule]

It would be great to have an option to turn off the badge that shows which profile is currently active.
With “badge,” I mean the small overlay icon that appears on the app icon in the taskbar!

[bijm]

It should at least be an option where your default profile does not have a badge, but subsequent profiles can/will. This still allows for easy differentiation without having a badge constantly on your normal profile.

[JavierGarcía]

Just commenting to hopefully bring awareness of the issue. I also would rather not have the badge unless I needed it. And I don't, I use other browsers for other tasks.

[JoelB]

Yes, please. I've just wasted some time figuring out what the heck that badge is. I didn't ask for multiple profiles. I don't want multiple profiles. I don't want a badge when I use the only profile I ever intend to use.

[keosak]

Give us a way to turn the badge in the task bar off. It uses the same UI paradigm that other applications use to indicate notifications and urgent status. There is absolutely nothing urgent about the default profile in Firefox. I do not want to have the thing on my screen. Turn it off.

[denis_zhbankov]

Thanks, @verbedr ! Your method of a transparent pixel worked for me too. The icon is still rendered, but since it's fully transparent, it's effectively invisible.

[taxyappa]

On macOS, Firefox now displays the profile icon as a badge on the Dock icon.
For users who only use a single profile, this badge is unnecessary and can become visual noise during work.

Please add an option in Settings to disable the profile icon badge on the Dock.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Krsjs]

The fact that some of us are uploading transparent pixels to brute-force this makes it clear that an iconless option is worth considering, even with a warning that profiles might be indistinguishable in the taskbar. With completely different themes, this is hardly a problem.

[FF3]

Is there any way to disable the stupid cart icon in the task bar now on Firefox on Windows 10? I only have one profile and NEVER will have or want another one. about:profiles in settings only show one default profile. Can anyone help?

[dbookbinder]

Instead of the badge icon Firefox is using, use a small transparent PNG file. The badge will then be invisible.

[Nikoomba]

I accidentally created a profile, something I don't care to use at all. Now I also have the shopping cart badge which isn't helping me.

[Nikoomba]

I accidentally created a new profile, which I have immediately deleted as I don't need this feature. But now I also have the shopping cart icon, which isn't helpful (but rather confusing and distracting) to me.

[t31os]

If you're tiny transparent image and having trouble saving, drag the crop handles in the corners to the edges of the box/window, and you'll then be able to save. For some reason using a 1x1 image can cause the crop tool to trigger (probably a bug, presumably as noone expected users to be trying to use a 1x1 image), and saving only works once you drag out the crop region.

It would be nice to have some built in options for this, something along the lines of "Disable avatar badge for main profile" and "Disable profile avatar badges".

[jeffbgaither]

verbedr's solution worked for me. just download this 1x1 transparent png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank.png
and set as your badge.