control-panel-for-twitter

Visit the Control Panel for Twitter website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @ControlPanelFT on Twitter for updates.

Changes

• Hide new Jobs nav item on mobile

Availability

New versions have to be reviewed and published by each browser extension store before they're available for use.

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Changes

• Hiding Jobs now hides the new primary navigation item on desktop
• Fixed defaulting sorting of replies in the desktop media modal timeline

Availability

This release is available in the following extension stores:

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Visit the Control Panel for Twitter website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @ControlPanelFT on Twitter for updates.

Changes

• Hid a new Premium upsell in the mobile timeline header

Availability

This release is available in the following extension stores:

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Visit the Control Panel for Twitter website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @ControlPanelFT on Twitter for updates.

Changes

• Added an option to set your preferred default for sorting replies

Availability

This release is available in the following extension stores:

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New "Default for Sort replies" option

Desktop option	Mobile option

Defaulting to Most recent:

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Changes

• Hiding upsells now hides the new "Get verified" button in your own profile

Availability

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Changes

• Fixed hiding "Subscriber" indicators in replies from subscribers
• Fixed handling the Subscribers tab in a user's followers/following page
• Fixed fallback font for custom content when the main font rule isn't found
• Fixed hiding the "Yeah! for Twitter" button on desktop when using that extension

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Changes

• Fixed features not working after switching between tabs on the Home timeline, after Twitter changed the timeline structure
• Fixed redirecting away from the Home timeline when you've disabled it

Changes

• Added a new option: Unblur sensitive content
• Added a workaround for a current Twitter bug which causes the page title to "stick" after you view a user profile, breaking our page change detection

Internal

• Removed the body.MainTimeline and body.TabbedTimeline styling hooks, which were leftovers from Twitter transitioning to a tabbed timeline, when we still supported both versions

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Unblur sensitive content

Changes

• The Communities bottom nav item can now be hidden on mobile
• Fixed themed Follow/Following buttons, which were always yellow after the migration to x.com
• Fixed an error handling user profile pages, whose initial content is now rendered asynchronously
• Fixed Twitter terminology being used in a few places when "Replace X branding changes" is off

Internal

• Removed code related to the "Customize your view" dialog, which Twitter removed from the main navigation menu

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Themed Follow/Following buttons

This release fixes using your preferred theme, which was broken after Twitter migrated to x.com

Mobile nav bar

Control Panel for Twitter lets you hide nav items you don't use - you can now also hide the Communities item

Branding consistency

Control Panel for Twitter reverts some of the main X branding changes by default, but if you turn this option off, features added or restored by Control Panel are now consistent with the X branding

• Added permissions for x.com URLs

• Control Panel for Twitter is now a Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension on Chrome-based browsers

  This change was necessary as Chrome will start disabling MV2 extensions and preventing new installations from being installed from the Chrome Web Store starting in June 2024

• Fixed hiding the Highlight upsell button when pinning a Tweet

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• Added an option to hide the new Create your Space nav item on desktop
• Hide a Premium upsell on the Likes tab in your own profile
• Don't hide the bookmark button on the Bookmarks page, so you can un-bookmark
• Fixed restoring Quote Tweets and other interaction links under Tweets
• Fixed hiding Reply, Like, Retweet and Bookmark metrics under Tweets
• Fixed the "Post" button not being replaced with "Tweet" in the Tweet editor
• Fixed the Remove button being hidden after adding Alt text to an image in the Tweet composer, when hiding the Bookmark button under Tweets

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• Added an option to hide Jobs (enabled by default)
• Added a "Show under focused tweets" sub-option to "Hide Bookmark button under tweets", which lets you show the bookmark button under focused tweets while hiding it elsewhere
• Added a "Number of followers" sub-option to "Show people with over 1 million followers", which lets you show replies from people with 1K, 10K or 100K followers instead, as Premium is now being forced on certain users
• Hide Premium upsells now hides the Highlights and Articles tabs in your own profile if you're not subscribed to Premium
• Simplified the name of the option which hides sidebar contents to just "Hide sidebar contents"
• Renamed a number of "Twitter Blue" options to "Premium"
• Fixed getting Tweet and user info from React state - fixes restoring links under Tweets and showing/hiding blue check replies based on follower count

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• Added an option to hide all inline prompts in the timeline (enabled by default)
• Fixed the "Post" button not being replaced with "Tweet" in the Tweet editor
• Changed the selectors for hiding Premium/Verified nav items to be less specific, as these URLs keep changing

• Hide the Ads nav item

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Nav Bar

More Menu

• Added an option to hide the new "Pro" menu item (enabled by default as it's a Premium upsell)
• Hide Subscribe prompts in the timeline
• Removed options for hiding menu items which have been removed by Twitter

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• When restoring headlines, hide the "From " link Twitter added after link cards
• Removed the Hide Open app nags option, as Twitter seem to have stopped doing this on mobile

[!NOTE]
This does not include the permanent "Open in the X app" banner in mobile Safari, which can only be removed by uninstalling the X app

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• Fixed Views being displayed under Tweets at some wider mobile resolutions after a Twitter change
• Fixed "Hide Views under tweets" hiding the bookmark button when viewing media on desktop

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• Added an option to remove the Grok nav item/upsell (enabled by default)
• Fixed a single item appearing in the profile page sidebar when hiding sidebar content on desktop - removed special handling for the now-removed sidebar media box

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Hide Grok

• Fixed disabling the Chirp font
• Fixed font in restored headlines, Quote Tweets link etc.
• Fixed the Twitter logo sometimes not being blue
• Fixed the initial page not being handled when opened in the background
• Fixed the top-level Settings page not being handled on desktop when the sidebar is collapsed

• Hiding the Bookmark button under tweets now also hides the new button under every timeline tweet
• Fixed the Media button in the desktop timeline overlapping the GIF button in the Tweet box when hiding the "For you" timeline
• Fixed staying on the Retweets/Shared Tweets timeline when the new Timeline settings modal is opened

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