Mozilla Firefox 26 - Turn off Annoying Flashing Green Arrow Splash on Download

[David C. Rankin]

All,

After searching, I have found a way to turn off the flashing green arrow in
userChrome.css. For those similarly affected, you need to add the following to
your ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/chrome/userChrome.css file:

/*
* Turn off flashing green download arrow splash:
*/

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

#downloads-indicator-notification {
display: none !important
}

This looks highly unprofessional in a business setting such as a presentation
or in court. No professional needs the display looking like a circus with each
click of the mouse during a presentation.

I know this is a mozilla issue, but it is worth keeping in mind for all
developers. When this 'cutesie' stuff is added, for goodness sake, create a
simple check-box that allows the user to turn this stuff off -- without having
to waste time to find out how to hack css files to get rid of this unwanted
fluff. Interfaces should be clean, functional and unintrusive.

Remember, a new feature is a BUG if it cannot be turned off. Hopefully there
are not too many more of these in firefox or thunderbird...

[Cristian Rodríguez]

Post by David C. Rankin
This looks highly unprofessional in a business setting such as a presentation
or in court. No professional needs the display looking like a circus with each
click of the mouse during a presentation.

People can surely understand at least the bare basics of a browser UI,
after all they might be users themselves, and empathize with you that
the browser might have a tiny bit of eye-candy which might not
appropriate to the setting.

Post by David C. Rankin
I know this is a mozilla issue, but it is worth keeping in mind for all
developers. When this 'cutesie' stuff is added, for goodness sake, create a
simple check-box that allows the user to turn this stuff off -- without having
to waste time to find out how to hack css files to get rid of this unwanted
fluff. Interfaces should be clean, functional and unintrusive.

The idea that this tiny insignificant detail needs a configuration
option is a prevalent poisonous mind-set in the opensource world and I
am glad mozilla has decided to stop appeasing and perpetuating this
complete and utter madness. (it is in the top 5 of insanities that
should go away)

[Linda Walsh]

Post by Cristian Rodríguez
The idea that this tiny insignificant detail needs a configuration
option is a prevalent poisonous mind-set in the opensource world and I
am glad mozilla has decided to stop appeasing and perpetuating this
complete and utter madness. (it is in the top 5 of insanities that
should go away)

---
Your concern for others' issues and priorities continues to be an example
in the SuSE community. ;-|

[David C. Rankin]

Post by Cristian Rodríguez
The idea that this tiny insignificant detail needs a configuration
option is a prevalent poisonous mind-set in the opensource world and I
am glad mozilla has decided to stop appeasing and perpetuating this
complete and utter madness. (it is in the top 5 of insanities that
should go away)

Let's not look at this as a million little checkboxes [ ] for every little inane
bit-wasting feature that is added, but there should be a global [ ] to "disable
animations".

-- Above All Remember --

If you are going to hand children crayons, you better have a bottle of 409 handy...

[Felix Miata]

Post by David C. Rankin
After searching, I have found a way to turn off the flashing green arrow in
userChrome.css. For those similarly affected, you need to add the following to
/*
*/
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
#downloads-indicator-notification {
display: none !important
}

There seems to be at least six other methodologies to not see that annoyance:

1- Loading Image...

2- Use SeaMonkey instead of Firefox+Thunderbird, which uses substantially
less RAM than the two separate products combined.

3- browser.download.animate.notifications: false

4- browser.download.useToolkitUI to true

5- Stylish extension

6- Status4Evar extension

Post by David C. Rankin
This looks highly unprofessional in a business setting such as a presentation
or in court. No professional needs the display looking like a circus with each
click of the mouse during a presentation.
I know this is a mozilla issue, but it is worth keeping in mind for all
developers. When this 'cutesie' stuff is added, for goodness sake, create a
simple check-box that allows the user to turn this stuff off -- without having
to waste time to find out how to hack css files to get rid of this unwanted
fluff. Interfaces should be clean, functional and unintrusive.
Remember, a new feature is a BUG if it cannot be turned off. Hopefully there
are not too many more of these in firefox or thunderbird...

--
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/