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How do I disable the tab preview dropdown window

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rc54
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Whenever I hover my mouse over a tab in FF11, whether it is active or not, FF will dropdown a preview window of that tab. The preview window actually drops down under the tab and will change as I move my mouse to other tabs. I find this annoying and would like to turn it off but I cannot find out how. I do not have any addons installed for this, and I'm not referring to the windows 7 taskbar tab preview feature.

Whenever I hover my mouse over a tab in FF11, whether it is active or not, FF will dropdown a preview window of that tab. The preview window actually drops down under the tab and will change as I move my mouse to other tabs. I find this annoying and would like to turn it off but I cannot find out how. I do not have any addons installed for this, and I'm not referring to the windows 7 taskbar tab preview feature.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Showing a tab preview on hovering a tab is not a standard feature AFAIK.

Did you still try Save mode to rule out any extensions?

rc54
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Well, as strange as this is, it's gone now. I took your suggestion and started FF in safe mode and sure enough, it was gone. So, I restarted back into normal mode and then went to my extensions and decided to just disable them one at a time (I only have about eight extensions) and the after the very first one I disabled (FVD Suite, which I didn't think would have anything to do with it) the problem was gone. I then re-enabled that extension to see if it would reappear, but it did not, and the problem has not yet returned. I find this very strange, but I'm glad it's gone.

Thanks for the help.

CaseyStelken
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Showing tab previews must be some sort of semi-hidden, accidental feature of Firefox 11. Because I had the same problem after updating.

It was remarkably annoying; whenever I hovered over a tab to do anything (close a tab, move a tab, etc.) the little preview would pop up, covering the tab, preventing me from doing anything with it. So I had to be really fast and sneaky with my mouse whenever I wanted to close or move a tab!

Anyway, I fixed it in a similar fashion to rc54, except I didn't disable a single add-on, which leads me to believe it's an issue with Firefox 11 that apparently only a handful of people have experienced.

All I did was restart Firefox in safe mode. Then I restarted Firefox again in normal full-mode again. I didn't change a thing, and the tab previews went away for good; problem solved.

Modified by CaseyStelken

Sandeep
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There is a preview when i move the mouse between tabs , a pop up window, because of that i was unable to make changes immediately, so kindly solve this.

Modified by Sandeep

cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot 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).

If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.

  • Use "Disable all add-ons" on the Safe mode start window to disable all extensions.
  • Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")