{"id":5417,"date":"2008-05-26T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-disable-firefox-delay-when-installing-extensions\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:30:44","slug":"how-to-disable-firefox-delay-when-installing-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-disable-firefox-delay-when-installing-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: disable Firefox delay when installing extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me you probably test a few Firefox extensions every week, meaning you&#8217;re familiar with the extension installation dialog that makes you wait for a few seconds before actually installing the extension on your browser. Though there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/2004\/07\/01\/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs\/\">security reasons<\/a> for this delay (it&#8217;s meant to prevent malicious software from installing on your computer without you noticing it), the truth is that after having to wait for it a dozen times, you end up hating that darn dialog. I did, so I decided to do a quick search and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygyan.com\/2008\/04\/how-to-disable-extension-install-delay.html\">found the trick <\/a>to disable it.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <em>about:config<\/em> in your address bar and then use <em>security.dialog_enable_delay<\/em> in the filter field to locate the exact text string. Double click on it and enter &#8220;0&#8221; as the new value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/delay011.jpg\" alt=\"disable Firefox delay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From now on, you won&#8217;t have to wait when installing new extensions. Just some sensible advice: always install extensions from reliable sources, and do not overload the browser with extensions you don&#8217;t really need or use anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me you probably test a few Firefox extensions every week, meaning you&#8217;re familiar with the extension installation dialog that makes you wait for a few seconds before actually installing the extension on your browser. Though there are security reasons for this delay (it&#8217;s meant to prevent malicious software from installing on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-disable-firefox-delay-when-installing-extensions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: disable Firefox delay when installing extensions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336088,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/336088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}