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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 195 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)
browser.ml.chat.enabled   false
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago

about:config
in your address bar

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 56 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You only disable the chat. Overall setting seems to be browser.ml.enable.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

browser.ml.enable

Thanks!

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago

I also see an extensions.ml.enable. Anyone with actual knowledge of the source code know what those are doing?

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Indeed it is a maligned but wonderful and versatile staple food

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hate how many of these you have to do on any new installation of Firefox.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A space for vanilla ff experience extension, sort of like sanemacs?

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago

That's basically what librewolf, waterfox, and a whole bunch of others are. In the same way manjaro and endeavor etc. are opinionated arch installs with spackling, those browsers are opinionated settings-already-selected versions of firefox.