1797818 - Way to disable Colorways

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Theme, enhancement)

Description

[danoftheroses]

The colorways feature does not appear to have a way completely disable it.
This is a problem, since it is a colorful and visually intrusive presence on the Firefox View and Addons page.

Setting the "browser.theme.colorway-closet" config option to false does not remove the feature, and it appears to be the only relevant configuration switch to Colorways.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1797662 +++

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to danoftheroses from comment #0)

This is a problem, since it is a colorful and visually intrusive presence on the Firefox View and Addons page.

Can you say more about this? Why is this a problem?

Comment 2

[danoftheroses]

Attachment: Firefox View

The bright Colorways card visually dominates Firefox View

Comment 3

[danoftheroses]

Attachment: Themes

The colorways themes takes up multiple screens of the themes tab, displaces Recommended themes, and unlike saved themes, cannot be removed.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to danoftheroses from comment #3)

Created attachment 9300858 [details]
Themes

The colorways themes takes up multiple screens of the themes tab, displaces Recommended themes, and unlike saved themes, cannot be removed.

It would take up a lot less space if you stop setting browser.theme.colorway-closet to false... Is it still an issue with that setting re-enabled (the default) ?

Comment 5

[danoftheroses]

Attachment: Firefox View with colorway enabled

With colorway closet enabled (the default), the colorways teaser also visually dominates the Firefox View screen

Comment 6

[danoftheroses]

Attachment: Themes with Colorways enabled

With colorways enabled (the default), the colorways banner pushed down "Saved Themes" on the addons page.

Comment 7

[danoftheroses]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #4)

It would take up a lot less space if you stop setting browser.theme.colorway-closet to false... Is it still an issue with that setting re-enabled (the default) ?

Yes, whether enabled or not, colorways takes up space in a visually distracting way. It's a fantastic feature for those who want to use it, but it should be able to be disabled for those who just don't find it to their liking.

I'm clearly not the only one who feels this way https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/yfwcma/is_there_a_way_to_remove_the_ad_for_colorways/

Comment 8

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

I will set this enhancement as new so the engineering team could decide if they take in consideration changing this.

Comment 9

[danoftheroses]

Since colorway no longer appears in Firefox, this is no longer an issue.