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Removing the Sidebar

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Can someone please tell me how to disable the new Sidebar? It is interrupting all of my workflow on the screen and it is frustrating with all of the choice and customization options in Firefox, that there would be no way to disable it.

Can someone please tell me how to disable the new Sidebar? It is interrupting all of my workflow on the screen and it is frustrating with all of the choice and customization options in Firefox, that there would be no way to disable it.

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

WARNING from the moderator team: Changing Firefox preferences from the about:config page can sometimes break Firefox or cause strange behavior. You should only do this if you know what you're doing. Please read Firefox advanced customization and configuration options to learn more.

This is the best advice for getting rid of it the 'Official' way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1476477#answer-1690886

However a lot of people seem to be reporting that it doesn't work for them so, if needed, an alternative method is:—

Type about:config into the search/URL bar.

That will bring up a warning which you'll have to acknowledge as care needs to be taken from here.

On the next screen there's a search box at the top. Type or paste sidebar.revamp into it. That will then appear below with the word true next to it. Double-click true and it will change to false and the sidebar will be no more.

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

WARNING from the moderator team: Changing Firefox preferences from the about:config page can sometimes break Firefox or cause strange behavior. You should only do this if you know what you're doing. Please read Firefox advanced customization and configuration options to learn more.

This is the best advice for getting rid of it the 'Official' way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1476477#answer-1690886

However a lot of people seem to be reporting that it doesn't work for them so, if needed, an alternative method is:—

Type about:config into the search/URL bar.

That will bring up a warning which you'll have to acknowledge as care needs to be taken from here.

On the next screen there's a search box at the top. Type or paste sidebar.revamp into it. That will then appear below with the word true next to it. Double-click true and it will change to false and the sidebar will be no more.

Okulungisiwe ngu ThePillenwerfer

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Thank you, SO much!!! It worked perfectly!

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