{"id":352,"date":"2018-01-11T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/?p=352"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:42:08","slug":"hide-addon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/faq\/hide-addon\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: How can I hide LeechBlock in Firefox&#8217;s Add-ons Manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy version of LeechBlock included an option to hide the LeechBlock extension in Firefox&#8217;s Add-ons Manager, preventing users from easily disabling or uninstalling it. It&#8217;s no longer possible to provide this option due to restrictions on extensions that were introduced in Firefox 57.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is another way to hide LeechBlock in the Add-ons Manager. Carefully follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locate your <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data\">Firefox profile folder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Create a new folder <strong>chrome<\/strong> inside your profile folder (if it doesn&#8217;t already exist).<\/li>\n<li>Create a new file <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/userContent.css\"><strong>userContent.css<\/strong><\/a> inside that folder with the following content: <code>[addon-id='leechblockng@proginosko.com'] { display: none !important; }<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will need to close all Firefox windows and restart Firefox for it to take effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you&#8217;re using Firefox 69 or above, you&#8217;ll also need to go to <em>about:config<\/em> and ensure the <em>toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets<\/em> preference is set to <strong>true<\/strong> (go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.userchrome.org\/how-create-userchrome-css.html#aboutconfig\">here<\/a> for more detailed instructions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy version of LeechBlock included an option to hide the LeechBlock extension in Firefox&#8217;s Add-ons Manager, preventing users from easily disabling or uninstalling it. It&#8217;s no longer possible to provide this option due to restrictions on extensions that were introduced in Firefox 57. However, there is another way to hide LeechBlock in the Add-ons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/faq\/hide-addon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FAQ: How can I hide LeechBlock in Firefox&#8217;s Add-ons Manager?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6LSwm-5G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}