Disable various one-time Mozilla pop-ups about new features

[c627627]

Frequently Mozilla issues a one time popup such as this one:

More secure, encrypted DNS lookups
Your privacy matters. Firefox now securely routes your DNS requests whenever possible to a partner service to protect you while you browse.
OK Got it Disable

For most people that's a one time thing, but if you are reimaging existing profiles, every time you delete a profile and restore a copy of it, you get the same popup because the copy did not trigger the popup yet.

So where is the toggle that tells the profile this popup has already run, so we can toggle it on old profiles?


It would be helpful if there was master switch that blocks these popups. They are helpful for n00bs but for us they are just a nuisance.

[morat]

You can set preferences that apply to all profiles using the <install directory>\defaults\pref\autoconfig.js file.

Customizing Firefox Using AutoConfig
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizi ... autoconfig

Deploying Firefox in an enterprise environment
http://developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/En ... _before_60

[dickvl]

See also the Recommend settings in 'Options -> General -> Browsing".

[WaltS48]

See also the Recommend settings in 'Options -> General -> Browsing".

I don't see anything there to turn off notifications.

If there was, wouldn't a completely new profile have reset them.

Even if the user disabled Snippets in Options > Home. That would be reset by a new profile.

[morat]

I think c627627 can disable the feature with the doh-rollout.enabled preference.

Reference
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... s+your+DNS
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... NFIRMATION
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... tpsEnabled

[c627627]

If I understood correctly, the master switch exists and it is
about:config
doh-rollout.enabled

Double click on doh-rollout.enabled to set it to false


This worked for me. morat, thank you very much.

[c627627]

While this did disable the pop-up in post#1, I just got this pop-up:

Firefox stopped a social network from tracking you here
Your privacy matters. Firefox now blocks common social media trackers, limiting how much data they can collect about what you do online.
Learn more
See Protections Close


doh-rollout.enabled was already set to FALSE

Therefore, doh-rollout.enabled is not a master switch I assumed it to be.

[morat]

That's a social tracking protection message.

Reference
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... cks+common

DOH stands for (D)ns (O)ver (H)ttps.

[c627627]

I see, so the posted solution is for one specific pop-up.

With future iterations of Firefox, there will always be new popups... so if there is no master switch... then we are stuck with popups when using frequently backed up profiles - which will always trigger them.


If Mozilla ever creates a master switch in the future, I hope someone bumps this thread.

[WaltS48]

I see, so the posted solution is for one specific pop-up.

With future iterations of Firefox, there will always be new popups... so if there is no master switch... then we are stuck with popups when using frequently backed up profiles - which will always trigger them.

Why do you have to use frequently backed up profiles?

[c627627]

What a great question.

Double clicking on a .bat file NUKES your profile AND replaces it with a perfectly clean fresh profile setup with every setting just like you like it to be. In a fraction of a second.
This is the .bat file if your profile is in directory E:\Folder\Profile and your backup is in directory E:\NEW\Profile :

rmdir "E:\Folder\Profile" /s /q
Xcopy /E /I "E:\NEW\Profile" "E:\Folder\Profile"
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

I also have multiple profiles with home pages set to all my Email accounts.
That way with a single click one by one open and I don't have to log into two or ten email accounts, they just open one after the other, in fractions of a second.
This is the .bat file for that if profile1 is the name of your first profile etc. :

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile1 -no-remote
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile2 -no-remote
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile3 -no-remote
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile4 -no-remote
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile5 -no-remote
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile6 -no-remote


I do this for Windows too. I partition my hard drive and reimage Windows 8 from Windows 10 and vice versa.
In less time it takes for a short bathroom break, I nuke Windows and reimage it with a fresh version where everything is exactly like I like it to be, even though I can fix pretty much any Windows problem, imaging from a superfast M.2 drive to another M.2 drive is quicker than fixing any Windows problem.

On the topic of this thread:
It's a mess now, with Firefox just popping up little things constantly about how great it is now,
I wish the developers would make a master switch. Anyone reading this who knows where to suggest that, please tell them. A master switch to stop Firefox telling us how great it is now.