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This is an interesting extension. Fortunately, I'm still getting one tab per click of the wheel, testing fairly slowly. Since content scripts are not allowed on some sites, it halts when I get to the Add-ons site; I guess one purpose of the extra option is to avoid that?

I don't know how many times a day you completely shut down and restart Firefox but if it's not often, you could consider running your own version of the extension using the Debugging page, Temporary extension feature. Here's how you do it:

Setup Steps

(1) Download to a convenient folder

On the Add-on's page, right-click the Remove button (or if you already removed it, the install button) and Save Link As to a convenient location. I suggest creating a new folder for this experiment, for example, under Documents.

(2) Extract the XPI file

The XPI file is just a ZIP file, so you can extract its contents the way you extract ZIP file contents.

(3) Edit the script file content.js

Right-click content.js and click Edit or use your preferred text editor. Lines 37-44 set up wheel detection; you can delete those lines and save/close the changed file.

Run Your Modified Extension

(4) Open the Debugging page

Type or paste about:debugging in the address bar and press Enter to load it. In the left column, click This Firefox. You may want to bookmark this page for future reference.

(5) Click the "Load Temporary Add-on..." button

Point Firefox to the folder where you extracted the extension and select the manifest.json file. Then click Open.

Firefox should show that it is now running your extension. Does it work as desired?

More info on this feature: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debugging#loading_a_temporary_extension

If it becomes a hassle to do this temporary installation routine, you could get the modified version signed by Mozilla, and then it could be installed normally.

If it becomes a hassle to do this temporary installation routine, you could get the modified version signed by Mozilla, and then it could be installed normally.

You can get it signed through the Add-ons site and either distribute it from a page there, or just download it for your own use.

Note: when you zip up the extension to submit to the site, do not include the META_INF folder. A new one that matches your modified version will be created.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/

The Add-ons team has a couple forums in case of questions:

• https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons/development
• https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons/addons-mozilla-org

Alternately, I've seen people volunteer to get extensions signed for users who do not want to learn this stuff; I think that probably was on Reddit (r/Firefox) rather than on the official site.

One more thing. Can we further alter it to stop it from going to the demo every time it is installed?

One more thing. Can we further alter it to stop it from going to the demo every time it is installed?

Lines 69-78 of background.js cause that. They can safely be removed.

That did it! I took your advice and sought a signing volunteer on Reddit. We'll see what happens.

I've probably thanked you 100 times in the past (ok, so maybe I'm exaggerating just a little, but it's close), so here's 101....Thanks again!!

You can go into the extension's settings page to disable the mouse wheel functionality.

You can go into the extension's settings page to disable the mouse wheel functionality.

I just discovered the v0.2.9 update. Perfect! Thanks so much.

Note: The page says this addon not available on your platform, so I downloaded the .xpi and installed it manually.