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Is there a way to turn off the visible-URL at the bottom left that is shown when you move your mouse over a link?

Bravo_Per
Bravo_Per
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I've just upgraded to Firefox 4. There's only one thing that bothers me, which I cannot even see the purpose of. When I browse a website and the mouse is over a link, a pop-up of the URL arrives on the bottom left side of the screen. This is extremely annoying, since your eyes automatically move to that area. Considering that websites consists of nothing but links, it will eventually give me a headache.

I've tried to find a way to uninstall this feauture in the Settings, but hasn't been able to find it. Is there ANY way to remove this?

Regards, Bravo_Per

I've just upgraded to Firefox 4. There's only one thing that bothers me, which I cannot even see the purpose of. When I browse a website and the mouse is over a link, a pop-up of the URL arrives on the bottom left side of the screen. This is extremely annoying, since your eyes automatically move to that area. Considering that websites consists of nothing but links, it will eventually give me a headache. I've tried to find a way to uninstall this feauture in the Settings, but hasn't been able to find it. Is there ANY way to remove this? Regards, Bravo_Per

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TonyE
TonyE
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The easiest way is to use the Status-4-Evar add-on. With it you can choose to not display any of the status messages or URL hover previews, or display them in the add-ons bar or location bar instead.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/status-4-evar

HarleyDavidson
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Yes! I had a problem with this aswell so I went into options then "under the hood" then you press ctrl + w. Works like charm!