This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Can't stop the tabs from showing it's content every time I move cursor across tabs.

  • 1 reply
  • 2 have this problem
  • 10 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

allpr
allpr
more options

Somehow the "show tab content" is active but the option box is not marked.I tried several times checking and unchecking this option even restarted the computer and still you can see tabs content when you hover the cursor over them.

Somehow the "show tab content" is active but the option box is not marked.I tried several times checking and unchecking this option even restarted the computer and still you can see tabs content when you hover the cursor over them.

All Replies (1)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

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

  • Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.

You can check for problems with preferences and try to rename or delete the prefs.js file and possible numbered prefs-##.js files and a possible user.js file to reset all prefs to the default values.