1499919 - No about:config preference to disable "Access Your Hidden Tabs" popup for add-ons whose primary function is to hide tabs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[Art McBain]

Attachment: hidden-tabs-warning.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Installed Simple Tab Groups add-on.
2. Created two new groups.
3. Switched to one of the new groups.
4. Created some new tabs (and visited sites) in this group.
5. Switched to the second group.


Actual results:

Firefox popped up saying "An extension, Simple Tab Groups, is hiding some of your tabs. You can still access all of your tab from v. Learn more"


Expected results:

That it wouldn't warn me at all, since the point of the Simple Tab Groups add-on is that it does allow me to segment my tabs into groups. I know it works by hiding tabs, but I don't need to be reminded of this every time I switch groups. I'm well aware.

A preference I can set in about:config to disable this popup would be nice, or if it's possible, the ability for the add-on register itself somehow so the popup only appears for add-ons that don't and as such aren't obviously set up to operate primarily by hiding tabs

I did go looking for such a preference, but wasn't able to find anything that appeared to do what I wanted.

Comment 1

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

If you click "Keep tabs hidden" in the notification it should stop showing up when Simple Tab Groups hides tabs. Does that work?

Comment 2

[Art McBain]

Ah, yes. Apologies. This ticket can be closed.