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How to Disable Firefox Hello Completely

Jun 29, 2016

Firefox Hello is a video-chat service created by Mozilla. It uses the WebRTC specification to provide video and voice conversations that don’t require any plug-ins, just your browser and web technologies without any additional software. You get a link you have to provide to the other participant — even user accounts aren’t required.

Disable Firefox Hello

To disable Firefox Hello completely, you’ll need to change a hidden setting on the advanced about:config page.

To access it, type “about:config” into Firefox’s address bar (without the quotes), press Enter, and agree to the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” prompt. Be careful with the settings you change here.

Type “loop.enabled” into the filter box at the top of the list of settings.

You’ll see a “loop.enabled” preference which is set to “true” by default. Double-click it and it will be set to “false”.

Close and reopen Firefox and Firefox Hello will be completely disabled.

Reenable Firefox Hello

To reenable it in the future, visit about:config and double-click the “loop.enabled” preference to set it back to “true”. (“Loop” is the codename for the FIrefox Hello project, which is why all the Firefox Hello-related settings in about:config refer to “loop.”)

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