How to remove Firefox orange microphone/webcam indicator from the top of the screen?
Firefox places this annoying indicator in the top of the screen when it is capturing video or sound from my computer.
It stays there even if I change to another window.
A Reddit post (How do I remove this microphone indicator?) suggests using this userChrome.css
:
#webrtcIndicator {
display: none;
}
However that does not work for me: The indicator is still up there, unchanged. How can I get rid of it?
- Navigate to your Firefox profile directory. If you do not know what it is:
- In Firefox, go to
Help > Troubleshooting Information
- The directory is listed in "Profile Directory".
- In Firefox, go to
- Create the directory
chrome
in it. - Inside the
chrome
directory just created, create the fileuserChrome.css
with these contents:
#webrtcIndicator {
display: none;
}
- Enter
about:config
in Firefox address bar. Accept the prompt to be cautious. - Type
userprof
in the search field. - Switch the option
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
totrue
(you can double-click it to switch or click "Toggle" button). - Restart Firefox.
I tested this on GNU/Linux, but I have no reason to believe this would be an operating system specific solution.
Steps 5 to 7, which I found in How to Create a userChrome.css File, are necessary for a Firefox version >= 69.
For anyone finding this question through search engines, there's a much easier way now.
First, go to about:config
and look for the key privacy.webrtc.legacyGlobalIndicator
, and set it to false
.
Now, "search" for the (non-existent) key privacy.webrtc.hideGlobalIndicator
. Since it doesn't exist, you'll be allowed to create it. Choose the boolean
type, and set it to true
.
Restart Firefox and that pesky icon will be gone!