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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon kkapsner

Cannot disable Container Tabs

Open concatime opened this issue 6 years ago • 12 comments
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Description

When using CanvasBlocker with Firefox Developer Edition (69.0b1 on Arch), I simply cannot disable Container Tabs, which seems to be a hard dependency of CanvasBlocker.

Response from email:

CanvasBlocker does not use container tabs but supports them. If you do not use it in Firefox CanvasBlocker will just work fine.

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Expected Behavior

Being able to disable Container Tabs.

Current Behavior

Option grayed out.

Possible Solution

?

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

  1. Get Firefox Developer Edition (69.0b1 on Arch)
  2. Install CanvasBlocker
  3. Try to disable Container Tabs

Your Environment

  • CanvasBlocker Version used: Version 0.5.12
  • Firefox version incl. 32- or 64-bit: Firefox Developer Edition 64-bit (69.0b1 on Arch)
  • Operating System and version (desktop or mobile): Arch Linux

concatime avatar Jul 12 '19 15:07 concatime

Interesting point but unfortunately there is nothing I can do. I have to use this API to support the people who use this feature (#350 and #368). We would have to open a change request at Mozilla to allow extension to use this feature and let the user disable it.

PS: this feature should be also available in Firefox 67.

kkapsner avatar Jul 12 '19 19:07 kkapsner

What are the down sides of having this setting on? Would these go away if you just delete all available containers?

kkapsner avatar Jul 12 '19 19:07 kkapsner

When you right click on a link, there is an annoying “Open Link in New Container Tab”, which on its own has a sub-menu with Personal, Work, Banking & Shopping. Quite annoying. For now, I will use this hack until this get resolved (if…).

concatime avatar Jul 12 '19 20:07 concatime

These are the Bugzilla tickets concerning this issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386673 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458585

Someone made a patch 7 months ago, but nothing happened since then for no apparent reason. Maybe @kkapsner can poke the right people there or take matters into his own hands, to speed up the process. 😅 I've upvoted the tickets ages ago, since I've been 'suffering' from this issue when Cookie AutoDelete introduced Container support..

@concatime Thanks for the hint of the userChrome.css entry, haven't thought about the ability to hide that annoying context menu option that way before.

spodermenpls avatar Jul 12 '19 21:07 spodermenpls

I will gladly make this permission optional.

kkapsner avatar Jul 12 '19 22:07 kkapsner

An extension, CanvasBlocker, requires Container Tabs.

I have them Enabled as other extensions want them (Facebook Container for example) When I Disable any of them I still see the same message until all are Disabled. Still a Firefox bug?

Gespalder avatar Dec 23 '19 07:12 Gespalder

Yes

kkapsner avatar Dec 23 '19 12:12 kkapsner

is this still a thing in 2022? it seems so, as i can't disable containers without disabling this ext. first.

alekksander avatar May 06 '22 13:05 alekksander

Firefox did not change in that point - so the situation did not change.

kkapsner avatar May 06 '22 19:05 kkapsner

To anyone with the issue, please just use the userchrome.css code linked by concatime.

Can confirm it works in May 2023 on Firefox 111 - the context menu item disappears, so will not be seen when right-clicking things. It's the best we can get, I believe, but it's good enough for me.

AV-Gaming avatar May 05 '23 23:05 AV-Gaming

I still see this in 2023 FireFox 117 ... what is the fix? I don't have any Container addons installed.

privacyguy123 avatar Sep 18 '23 18:09 privacyguy123