Firefox - How to get rid of Plugin Bar

I am using the latest Firefox. I do not want plugins. I do not use
plugins, I do not want to be asked about plugins.
LEAVE ME ALONE !!!!

Is there any way to kill that damn bar that pops up every 3rd webpage
asking for plugins?

The firefox people really need to add an easy way to disable some
things like this. Like add some more items to the toolbar. Either
that, or can someone come up with some secondary software to allow for
more options. (Maybe that would be considered a plugin in itself, and
is the only one that I want or need).

I really like Firefox, except for the fact that is lacks so many
options to take control of it.

 

Well, if you dont want sound during browsing, or dont want to see flash
animations, or dont want to view pdf documents, then yep, I guess you
dont need plug ins then

Firefox is one of the most configurable programs available.

You dont want to be remineded that the page requires you to have a plug
in to experience it as the web author designed it, well you can do that
too. You can add lots of things to your toolbar as well, they are
customizeable in Firefox.

Work in the latest branches should provide you with a tool in the User
Interface to disable plug ins totally as well, but that may be a few
months yet.

You may wish to review the following page, which lists some of the
configurations you can make with Firefox.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq

To disable the plug in warning, then
using about:config
change the plugin.display_plugin_downloader_dialog to false

Or create/write a user.js file with the following line

user_pref("plugin.display_plugin_downloader_dialog", false);

 

this

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?a...scoring=r&as_oq=config+prefs+&as_drrb=b&as_mi
nd=12&as_minm=7&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2005
led to

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?threadm=
which seems relevant

 

Actually, I could live without all of these. In fact I killed Flash
player by deleting the files, (in both Firefox and IE), and I do my
best to download PDF files and read them from my own harddrive, or
they take forever to load. I am rural and can only get dialup
internet. So, that leaves sounds, which I can live with or without.

I know of "about:config" but I am not a computer programmer nor do I
want to be, particularly at my advanced age. I just want Firefox to
stop nagging me about plugins! I know the minute I touch anything in
there I will be reinstalling something.

Thank God !!!!

Thanks, I looked here, but honestly, most of it is over my head.

OK, I was armed and ready to do this.
I went into "about:config" and there is no such line. There are a few
others that use the word "plugin" but no exact match.

This would be ok too, but I have no clue how to do it or where to put
it.

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Additionally, while looking at some of the mozilla websites I came
across a dowload that is supposed to be similar to TweakUI for
Firefox, and enable all the things found in "about:config" in a menu.
That sounded just like what I was looking for. I downloaded it, it
went into my download directory, with a file called preferential.xpi.
The documentation for it said to download it, and close all Firefox
windows. When I restart there will be "something" there to allow me to
use it. I did all of this, and nothing happened except that file is
now in my download directory, (doing nothing). I clicked on it, I got
to see all the binary junk in wordpad for windows. It's not an
executable file, so who knows what the hell it does, other than add
junk to fill my harddrive.

I must say that I really like Firefox better than IE, it's less prone
to crashing, less likely to get hit with spyware or hijacked, and I
love the tabs. But it's major fault, aside from being slower to load
than IE (I can live with that), is that one has to have an advanced
defree in computer programming, with far too much time on their hands
than I can spare, to modify anything not found in the "Tools" menu.

I guess I will just have to keep using IE when the plugin nag bars get
on my nerves, and instead deal with popup ads. Can't win either way !

PS. What files does "about:config" modify. At least if I can back
them up on a floppy I will feel better about tampering with the thing.

Thanks

Me

 

When I go to about:config in FF, I don't see any such pref there either.
However, you can add it. Right click and choose New>>Boolean.

Preference name should be:

plugin.display_plugin_downloader_dialog

Value should be false.

Note, I have never wanted to disable the dialog, so I have never
actually done this. I have no idea how or if it works, but if Moz
Champion suggests it, its a pretty good bet.

Also note, while it is very easy to add prefs in about:config, you
cannot remove them. You can disable them by setting no value, butt they
will still appear. Should you wish to remove them, you would have to
edit them out of prefs.js.

Lee

 

Thanks Lee

I think this did it unless I just missed all the sites that ask for
plugins last evening. I should have bookmarked one of them, but
considering I was getting them all the time, I did not hit one of
them. Sure is nice !!! That was getting as annoying as popups.