How to Disable Firefox 4 Taskbar tab previews in Windows 7

by Mayur on July 7, 2010

in How To's, Tips 'n' Tricks

Like Internet Explorer, Chrome (Beta), Opera and Safari browser; Firefox 4 Beta 1 has added the feature to show tab previews in Windows 7 taskbar. We’ve already discussed as: How to disable Taskbar tab preview in Chrome, Opera and IE on Windows 7 and now it’s time to turn this feature off in Firefox 4 because you may find it pretty annoying.

Firefox tab previews in Windows 7

Turn off Firefox tab previews in Windows 7 taskbar -

1. Open Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and open it.

2. Enter browser.taskbar.previews in the Filter tab.

about:config page

3. Double-click the entry named browser.taskbar.previews.enable so that its value is set as False. That’s it!

Now the tab previews will be disabled and you’ll see only a single preview of the active tab running in Firefox.

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Swarup July 7, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Good tips Mayur

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Michael July 11, 2010 at 1:43 am

Thanks that was driving me crazy!

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rCon^ July 11, 2010 at 5:44 am

That saved my life :D
I hate multiple tab preview!

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Dmitro August 9, 2010 at 7:04 pm

So it’s not such a shitty browser after all

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Warll August 18, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Thank you oh so very much, when you have 20 pages of documentation all from the same site this “Feature” is the last thing you need when switching from IDE to documentation.

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Martin August 22, 2010 at 11:11 pm

Thank you. It was annoying as hell.

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philippe September 7, 2010 at 10:30 am

Tanks man, this should in the setting menu, it’s something a lot of users would like to turn off

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Adam November 22, 2010 at 9:26 pm

Thanks for the tip. This was starting to get really annoying. I hope Firefox 4 stops trying to change things just for the heck of changing it and leaves things functional.

Also, as someone else already stated, this should definitely be in the regular options menu.

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