Feature request for beta (and only beta) versions: the pop-up window

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WhatHaveYou
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Feature request for beta (and only beta) versions: the pop-up window

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May we have an option to disable the pop-up window that warns of beta status? Disabling that message would make the program easier to test and to use. (For, some of us will want to use the program as well as/whilst testing it.) Apologies if there is such an option and I have failed to find it.
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Re: Feature request for beta (and only beta) versions: the pop-up window

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in terminal window run:

VBoxManage setextradata global "GUI/PreventBetaWarning" "6.0.0_BETA1"
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Re: Feature request for beta (and only beta) versions: the pop-up window

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Thank you. Solved.
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Re: Feature request for beta (and only beta) versions: the pop-up window

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WhatHaveYou wrote:Disabling that message would make the program easier to test and to use.
An extra click/<Enter> at launch? Come on, you got to have that warning, it's a good reminder. Not a pleasant one, but necessary. Something like your alarm clock in the morning! :)
WhatHaveYou wrote:For, some of us will want to use the program as well as/whilst testing it.
As opposed to the rest of us that want to either only use it or only test it? ;)

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