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how do I turn off the hover feature over links; the popups irk me, prevent me from smoothly reading articles; I'm about to switch to a different browser despite its lack of tabs (I want the hover to work when built into the html code, as in navigation bar

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How can I disable the hover feature over links, not navigation bars. The pop-ups while reading articles block, and anger me and I don't need this added aggravation in my life. If I want the link, I'll click on it! This doesn't happen when I use the Safari browser.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== a month or two ago after an update, and on my work PC and home MAC computer. It does not happen in Safari!

How can I disable the hover feature over links, not navigation bars. The pop-ups while reading articles block, and anger me and I don't need this added aggravation in my life. If I want the link, I'll click on it! This doesn't happen when I use the Safari browser. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == a month or two ago after an update, and on my work PC and home MAC computer. It does not happen in Safari!

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DaveRo
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What hover feature or pop-ups? Can you give an example page URL.

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e.g. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_uganda_explosions eg. just hovering over the "Uganda and Burundi" words that for a link

DaveRo
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I don't see them (Fx 3.6.6)

It's either the Yahoo site itself or something on your machine.

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AnonymousUser
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Your right, I think it's yahoo news and sbcglobal.com emails only (and in both Firefox and Safari -- I must have tested a different source in Safari -- my bad)

cor-el
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You can look at Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1865 You need to subscribe to a Filter list (e.g. the EasyList): http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

Adblock Plus forum: https://adblockplus.org/forum/