How about just removing the animation? There is a general preference that applies to many areas of the UI that will do it:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste cosm and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false

jscher2000 said

How about just removing the animation? There is a general preference that applies to many areas of the UI that will do it: (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste cosm and pause while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false

Thanks but anyway it's a good suggestion for Moziila - add an option to hide this shield when click it with right mouse button (for example). Especially considering that content blocking is enabled now by default for thirt-party tracking cookies and this shield is always in task bar.

You can add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css

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

/* URLBAR - Tracking Protection Shield */
#tracking-protection-icon-box[active]       {visibility:collapse !important}
#tracking-protection-icon-box[hasException] {visibility:visible !important}

Is there a way to move this suggestion to Mozilla as feauture request?

If you disable Content Blocking globally then you wont see the shield. The shield is shown to make you aware that content blocking is active and is blocking content. Mozilla would never provide a way to hide this icon because this feature can cause pages to break and you won't be aware .

Content blocking work not like before. I wrote previously that blocking third-party cookies works now by default (always), so there is no need in this shield because Firefox will blocking something all the time. Clicking "i"button in address bar you could see all info about content blocking - what type of blocking is used and what was blocked on current page.

Content blocking is not about blocking third-party cookies,but is merely about blocking files from specific locations as you can see listed in the Web Console (The resource at “xxx” was blocked because content blocking is enabled).

• "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Web Developer
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Tools/Web_Console

cor-el said

Content blocking is not about blocking third-party cookies,but is merely about blocking files from specific locations as you can see listed in the Web Console (The resource at “xxx” was blocked because content blocking is enabled).

• "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Web Developer
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Tools/Web_Console

I meant that content blocking works always now and there is no need to indicate that it work. Previously users could disable it and leave only for private browsing or enable it for normal mode also. And shield indicated when it work and when not.

Content Blocking might be enabled always, but this doesn't mean that content is blocked on a specific page. Only when you see the shield then you know that content is blocked and if the page isn't working properly or you miss content then you can click the shield and possibly disable content blocking.

Anyway there should be an option to hide it for those people which this shields distracts. I'm tired to see page adress jumping to the right everytime when page load. Let this shield show by default but let also hide it.