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How do I disable the "New Tab opened" button that appears for 3secs when I open a new tab?

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Dear Helpful Open Source people.

I would like to disable the "New Tab opened" that appears for 3secs when I open a new tab?

I usually open tabs from a search engine's results page expecting the links to be of varying quality. This means that it is efficient to open several links from that page and review and close them sequentially later. A reality of the output of search engines is that your 1st link is sedom the one you want.

This button clutters an already small phone screen. I've hardly the space to click outside it and move on often clicking it by accident. Waiting prevents me scrolling to click the next link for 3 seconds or worse when I scroll prematurely I accidentally click it and jump to that Tab prematurely. I don't need to be told what I just did. I know... There is a perfectly functional tabs button in Firefox Android that let's me jump to my new tab in less than second with 2 presses when I wish to do so.

I appreciate that it's "only" 3 seconds and a 1st world problem, but browsers and OS designers aspire to fast customisable function. Maybe there's a way to get rid of this button?

The button is shown in section 3 of "Open a Link in a New Tab" in this article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-tabs-firefox-android

PS. Mozilla - great work with the Sync function keep developing!!

Dear Helpful Open Source people. I would like to disable the "New Tab opened" that appears for 3secs when I open a new tab? I usually open tabs from a search engine's results page expecting the links to be of varying quality. This means that it is efficient to open several links from that page and review and close them sequentially later. A reality of the output of search engines is that your 1st link is sedom the one you want. This button clutters an already small phone screen. I've hardly the space to click outside it and move on often clicking it by accident. Waiting prevents me scrolling to click the next link for 3 seconds or worse when I scroll prematurely I accidentally click it and jump to that Tab prematurely. I don't need to be told what I just did. I know... There is a perfectly functional tabs button in Firefox Android that let's me jump to my new tab in less than second with 2 presses when I wish to do so. I appreciate that it's "only" 3 seconds and a 1st world problem, but browsers and OS designers aspire to fast customisable function. Maybe there's a way to get rid of this button? The button is shown in section 3 of "Open a Link in a New Tab" in this article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-tabs-firefox-android PS. Mozilla - great work with the Sync function keep developing!!

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For some reason, Android calls that little notification bar a "toast" so that's the new tab toast. It was added in Firefox 12.

I can't see any preference to suppress it, so I think that would require filing a new bug (request for enhancement). If you feel strongly, I think you are the best person to file it.

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Thank-you for the reply. Like you I couldn't find a preference to do this.

I wondered whether it might be possible to disable this by editing a key using "about:config" but I've never gone into the innards of Firefox Mobile, just into the desktop browser.

I'll give this a week or so to see what other people say and failing resolution I'll log it as a bug. Although it's not really a bug more a feature I'd like the option to disable.