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How do I disable the link popup you get when hovering over a link? (Most annoying "feature" ever)

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When hovering over a link in FF 10.0 you get a very anoying popup in the left corner of the browser, I want to disable this "feature". I DONT want to move the displaying of the link to any kind of statusbar I want it gone completely.

When hovering over a link in FF 10.0 you get a very anoying popup in the left corner of the browser, I want to disable this "feature". I DONT want to move the displaying of the link to any kind of statusbar I want it gone completely.

Chosen solution

Add code to userChrome.css below the default @namespace line.

The customization files userChrome.css (interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.


@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#statusbar-display { display:none!important; }
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You can try this add-on : Status-4-Evar add-on


thank you

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Yeah and then I get a bar instead, thats a bit better but I want to disable the showing of the link alltogether... as I said "I DONT want to move the displaying of the link to any kind of statusbar"

Chosen Solution

Add code to userChrome.css below the default @namespace line.

The customization files userChrome.css (interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.


@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#statusbar-display { display:none!important; }