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This is what I mean
I found these answers, this is WAY too hard.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1341555
https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/p485un/how_to_disable_the_audio_playing_icon/
Is there an easier solution ? To turn off these play/pause/mute button that I keep click on accidentally ? I already have good controls with "Find sound tab" audio addon and I don't need this
I think those modifications can only be done via CSS. For example, I disabled the close tab button the same way.
If you have the correct code, it's not hard to use.
You shouldn't be navigating by mouse in the first place, though. Either of these methods works:
You can use AutoHotkey or some other tool on your OS of choice to map these to more ergonomic alternatives if that may be easier (for example, I mapped Ctrl+Q to "Ctrl+L, % " to invoke the second way automatically). I can help with AutoHotkey code if you'd like, in [email protected].
If you have that many tabs that it's difficult to avoid the buttons, then you may like this second method anyway, since that tab-jumping method makes it totally needless to visually track which tabs are where in the tab strip. You could have a hundred tabs and not know where they are; just use "% " and part of the tab's name to jump to it.
TL;DR: I couldn't figured out how to hide those interactive buttons either, haha.
I use mouse4/5 to next/prev/close tabs and tab manager plus for management.
But I still need to click one tabs sometimes because spatially that is sometimes the most convenient way for me to say "that one"
And also sometimes selecting a group of specific tabs to do a mass operation on them.
And the problem is some of these tabs have annoying unexpected buttons that I don't want to have keep track of and press accidentally.
Gotcha, yeah... These are use cases that my approach definitely doesn't address. Hmm. All I can think of is splitting off these groups of tabs into separate windows so that the buttons have more clickable space between them.