How to Disable "Feedback" Button in Firefox 5?

Few days ago (yesterday actually :)), Mozilla released the latest version of their award winning, highly secure web browser, Firefox 5. Although in comparison with the version 4, id did not bring any huge improvements concerning the GUI... but because of the bug fixes, performance improvements, etc it is well worth installing nonetheless.

Anyway, by default Mozilla Firefox comes with a button called "Feedback" which shows right next to the "Google search" tab. And as most knows the purpose of this Feedback button is to get user feedback faster thus helping to create an even better, secure web browser.

Also, via this button, you can "participate" in user studies and when a user study is available, it'll give you a big notification message which is quiet annoying. So, how can we disable this "Feedback" button in Firefox 5?.

Firefox without the "button" :)...

Simple, once opened, from the menu choose: "Tools" -> "Addons".

Step 1...

Then from the window that you get, from the left choose: "Extensions" and then to the right side of the screen you'll see an extension called "Feedback 1.1.1" (the version might change according to the updates.

Step 2...

Now all you gotta do is, select that "Feedback 1.1.1" extension and click on the "disable" button. That's it!. Now we've successfully disabled that troublesome Feedback feature. Such a short post, I feel cheap :).

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Wanna Install Firefox 5 in Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (testing purposes only)

Mozilla in their attempt of creating a secure web browser, has released Firfox 5, almost!. The all new Firefox is in their FTP repositories but it's not officially released yet. So GNU/Linux, MS Windows and users from other operating systems can download it and install. But remember, Mozilla is known to do final "small" tweaks to the Web browser... so if you want the best possibly fixed, secure web browser, then if I were you, I'd wait just a little longer :D.

If you download the appropriate package then all you have to do is extract the archive in GNU/Linux and run the executable Firefox 5 file which should let you run the new browser. But, this unlike with the usual method of installing it through your own software manager, will not create any icons nor menus, etc... so it kinda sucks.

In that case you'll be glad to know that, the Firefox 5 is actually in the Ubuntu Linux Testing channels. This is actually a standard procedure used (well, not just Ubuntu developers) by Ubuntu OS developers, before they made the official release of the any software it first "hits" the testing channels which anyone can participate by installing and using then giving them the feedback, etc.

Anyhow, as mentioned before, if you can't wait few more hours (actually it can be more than few hours, since we don't know when Canonical will make it available via Launchpad) until it's officially released, then you can install the testing version of Mozilla Firefox 5 in Ubuntu 11.04 by using the below PPA channel.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Remember, this will only work for Ubuntu 11.04 version only. And as said before, this is for testing purposes only and if you're concerned about security and want the most secured version of the Firefox web browser then wait for few more hours (I'll update you as soon as it's available for GNU/Linux). :D.

Oh one more thing, it seems like the only available language pack is English.

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