This is what I mean
I found these answers, this is WAY too hard.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1341555
https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/p485un/how_to_disable_the_audio_playing_icon/
Is there an easier solution ? To turn off these play/pause/mute button that I keep click on accidentally ? I already have good controls with "Find sound tab" audio addon and I don't need this
You shouldn't be navigating by mouse in the first place, though. Either of these methods works:
You can use AutoHotkey or some other tool on your OS of choice to map these to more ergonomic alternatives if that may be easier (for example, I mapped Ctrl+Q to "Ctrl+L, % " to invoke the second way automatically). I can help with AutoHotkey code if you'd like, in !ahk@programming.dev.
If you have that many tabs that it's difficult to avoid the buttons, then you may like this second method anyway, since that tab-jumping method makes it totally needless to visually track which tabs are where in the tab strip. You could have a hundred tabs and not know where they are; just use "% " and part of the tab's name to jump to it.
TL;DR: I couldn't figured out how to hide those interactive buttons either, haha.
I use mouse4/5 to next/prev/close tabs and tab manager plus for management.
But I still need to click one tabs sometimes because spatially that is sometimes the most convenient way for me to say "that one"
And also sometimes selecting a group of specific tabs to do a mass operation on them.
And the problem is some of these tabs have annoying unexpected buttons that I don't want to have keep track of and press accidentally.
Gotcha, yeah... These are use cases that my approach definitely doesn't address. Hmm. All I can think of is splitting off these groups of tabs into separate windows so that the buttons have more clickable space between them.