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how i can a disable the share buttion

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We want to disable the new Firefox Share Button and the "Hello" Chat.

We want to disable the new Firefox Share Button and the "Hello" Chat.

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regarding the share-functionality, you could lock social.share.activationPanelEnabled and social.remote-install.enabled to false and social.activeProviders to an empty string...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

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You can remove they from your toolbar, use the option customize to do this:

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You can toggle the loop.enabled pref to false on the about:config page. Close and restart Firefox.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

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Right-click each of those buttons and select Remove from Toolbar.

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That's alright but i want to deploy the Firefox to some Workstation in our Company and i don't want that they have the possibility to "share" pages.

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regarding the share-functionality, you could lock social.share.activationPanelEnabled and social.remote-install.enabled to false and social.activeProviders to an empty string...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences