How do I get rid of floating social media bar
Whenever I select text of a webpage a floating social media bar (share FB, G+, Twitter and Gmail) appears over the text - it's a distraction and I want rid of it. Any clues?
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
- GEPlugin
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.15.2 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.6
- DivX Plus Web Player version 2.2.2.14
- Google Update
- Spoon Plugin 3.33
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- RealPlayer Download Plugin
- RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader Chrome Background Extension Plug-In
- RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In
- RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
- RealDownloader Plugin
- Winamp Application Detector
- 5.1.10411.0
- Spoon Plugin 3.32
- Spoon Plugin 3.31
- Spoon Plugin 3.30
- DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
- Spoon Plugin 3.26
- NPWLPG
- Spoon Plugin 3.25
- Spoon Plugin 3.23
- Yahoo Application State Plugin version 1.0.0.7
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
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hello, first of all please update your browser version, it is affected by dozens of known security vulnerabilities - firefox 19 is the current version: Update Firefox to the latest version
the issue you've described sounds like an addon that is providing this functionality - you can disable/remove them in firefox > addons > extensions.
I notice that you have a lot of Spoon plugins showing in the system details list.
- Spoon Plugin 3.33
- Spoon Plugin 3.32
- Spoon Plugin 3.31
- Spoon Plugin 3.30
- Spoon Plugin 3.26
- Spoon Plugin 3.25
- Spoon Plugin 3.23
Do you really need all of them or only the latest with the highest number?
See "Manually uninstalling a plugin":
Question owner
Thanks for the replies.
Cor-el: You're right I allowed the spoon plugins to accumulate. Removing the old versions from the system didn't seem to kill anything.
Madperson: I updated my Firefox, then remembered why I hadn't done it before. It just crashes on startup. Nothing after version 12 works. I only returned to FF12 when the latest Chrome update screwed up, but it IS working now So, back to Chrome I go.
Thanks anyway.
Thanks for your consideration.
Cheers,
K.
You can use one of these to start Firefox in Safe mode:
- On Windows, hold down the Shift key while starting Firefox with a double-click on the Firefox desktop shortcut
- On Mac, hold down the Options key while starting Firefox
- Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more crash reports that have this format:
- bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page.
- You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website.
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