Till now on Firefox 63, we’ve covered this: the browser allows to disable Quick Find, and Mozilla has removed the ability to disable automatic updates in Firefox browser by removing ‘never check for updates’ option. When you press Ctrl+Tab in Firefox version 63, thumbnail preview of tabs will be shown and tabs will be cycled through recently used order.
READ:Mozilla enables trl+Tab Previews in Firefox by default for new profiles
Today, we’re going to tell you in Firefox 63, how you can disable bookmark panel or bookmark dialog that landed in Firefox 62, which shows screenshot and favicon of the site when you favorite.
When compared to Firefox 62, in Firefox 63, an improvement has been made to bookmark panel, the bookmark dialog now offers ‘Show editor when saving‘ checkbox in the dialog box and the editor window vanishes or closes automatically after 4 seconds when there is no interaction with dialog from user.
If you don’t want to see the bookmark editor window (that also includes show editor when saving checkbox) when you bookmark new pages or sites, Mozilla offers a preference in about:config, by disabling the preference you can get rid of card designed bookmark feature in Firefox browser, here is how that can be done.
Also SEE:Change Firefox default bookmark location from ‘Other Bookmarks’
Firefox 63: how to disable bookmark editor dialog for new bookmarks
I.
1. Visit the webpage you want to bookmark in the address bar,
2. Click star icon and in the bookmark dialog, uncheck ‘Show editor when saving’
3. Done
Or
II.
1. Visit about:config
2. Search for Edit, select browser.bookmarks.editDialog.showForNewBookmarks
3. Double click to change its value to false.
From now on, whenever you bookmark, animation saying ‘saved to library’ confirmation only will be shown, but not the editor. But Editor will still be shown for already bookmarked pages, where you can able to re-enable Firefox to show editor when saving bookmarks.
The problem with the new bookmark tab with the large preview drop down (and the suggestions box drop down), is they cover half the browser windows on a small 13” laptop, so if you want to add a bookmark but use information from the browser window (such as the date and time and ebay auction finishes, you can’t see it, to re-type it as part of the bookmark.
Apple does this too on their iPads, it’s really annoying.
Firefox has introduced this extremely irritating “Save to Library” notification and fucntionality. Nobody asked us if we want this, and we do not. I simply want the old dialog box. I find that if I change browser.bookmarks.editDialog.showForNewBookmarks
to “true” this extremely irritating functionality goes away, but sometimes when I reload Firefox it comes back and I have to get rid of it all over again. This is time-consuming and irritating. How to get rid of it permanently?
Exactly! I’ve had to change that “browser.bookmarks.editDialog.showForNewBookmarks” thing several times from true to false. And sometimes after a certain number of times I’ve restarted my laptop (also w/a small screen)… & there it is. That giant annoying “preview” Bookmark thing. As if I never changed/personalized anything in past years! If only the newer Firefix version/s weren’t so forced in display & “features” changes that come with the new versions. Why don’t they do what Windows used to do in options of the updates & just update the security things then let US choose what non-essential features/add-ons to change/add?? Then I would actually have/download the latest version. Windows in early 2000s until 2012 or so was best in giving users personalized options AND security. But now…. well that’s a different subject like laptop batteries (lol).
Okay, your instructions are true to their title, they remove the dialog completely. But I want to edit the bookmark text before saving, I just want to get rid of that screenshot nonsense! How do I get back the old dialog? I fear not at all… :(
Yes, not possible. Card like UI is here stay, they added that for add-ons also https://techdows.com/2018/10/firefox-about-add-ons-card-ui.html
It turns out it can be tweaked, it’s just not as straightforward as setting an about:config parameter. The chosen answer here explains how to revert the dialog using userChrome.css:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1232360