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how to stop mouse hover from activating links, tabs, and commands in Firefox without clicking?

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Alessandro Magania Ruiz
Alessandro Magania Ruiz

Hello, while using the Firefox browser links, commands and selecting of tabs keep being activated by simply hovering over. Is there a way to disable that? I have it disabled on my computer commands and it only happens on Firefox. 

It’s driving me nuts and in some cases it has fired up actions that could be problematic like prompting emails to send etc.
Hello, while using the Firefox browser links, commands and selecting of tabs keep being activated by simply hovering over. Is there a way to disable that? I have it disabled on my computer commands and it only happens on Firefox. It’s driving me nuts and in some cases it has fired up actions that could be problematic like prompting emails to send etc.

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zeroknight
zeroknight

Do you have any accessibility software that would do this? Try changing accessibility.force_disabled to 1 in about:config then restart the browser.

Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?