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How to disable Tracking Protection Option in Firefox Menu

Last updated on July 16, 2018 By Venkat

Recently, in Firefox 62, Mozilla has added Tracking Protection option to the hamburger menu, this allows user to turn Tracking Protection on/off from menu itself without visiting Privacy & Preferences Settings. For some reason, if you don’t find it useful or unnecessary, Firefox team allows to disable it in Firefox version 63, here is how you can do that. FYI, the Firefox browser also shows Tracking Protection status for the normal browsing mode in identity box.

disable tracking protection option Firefox 63 menu

READ: Firefox 62: Turn Tracking Protection On/Off from Menu

Disable Tracking Protection toggle in Firefox Hamburger menu

Ensure you’re using Firefox 63 or later.

1 .Visit about:config
2. Search for trackingprotection, in  the search results displayed below, find the preference, privacy.trackingprotection.appMenuToggle.enabled and change its value to false.

Now if you open Application Menu, you won’t see Tracking Protection option. To enable it, change the above preference value to true again.

hamburger menu without tracking protection

Have you found this tip useful? Let us know in the comments.

You can find more articles on Firefox 63 and Firefox 62 below

  • Firefox 62 gets New Bookmark Dialog
  • Firefox 63: Disable Quick Find (for ‘ and / keys)

Filed Under: Firefox, How to, tips and tricks

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