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Schneeeule
New member
Status: New idea

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!

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

KimB
Employee
Employee

Hi, @Schneeeule and thanks for your idea! 

Could you please share a bit more about why you are asking for this? I'm asking because our user feedback so far indicates that the badging (overlay icon) is helpful because folks want to know what profiles are open/running. Perhaps you're running into an issue we don't know about yet!

ernest314
Strollin' around

Personally, I have a main profile where I do most of my browsing, and a few additional profiles I occasionally use for security/privacy/isolation. While it's nice to know which profile I'm using for the additional ones, 95% of the time the clarification is irrelevant. At least in my mental model I think of myself as just using "Firefox", and having an additional badge obscuring the icon is a slight annoyance most of the time.

myakura
Making moves

Screenshot 2025-04-14 at 12.35.26.png
wholeheartedly agree. I've just realized that the icon on the top-right corner of my Firefox (138 beta) was a profile icon and I see it confusing and jarring. It just appeard from nowhere and looks like a notification badge.

albertk
New member

I agree this option too since I also have a main profile which I use and I'd like to only have the overlay for the other profiles!