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How do you disable those annoying popup descriptions

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Whenever I'm trying to read anything especially when scrolling every time the mouse hovers over anything a yellow box pops up with a source description that I do not need or want. It's extremely annoying.

Whenever I'm trying to read anything especially when scrolling every time the mouse hovers over anything a yellow box pops up with a source description that I do not need or want. It's extremely annoying.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).


You can look at Adblock Plus to hide IntelliTXT type pop-ups.

You need to subscribe to a Filter list (e.g. the EasyList).