Date and time boxes on Facebook pages in Firefox 89.0.1
Even since I updated Firefox to 89.0.1, I'm getting these floating black boxes with date and time on all Facebook posts. Why? Where did they come from? How do I get rid of them, as they are blocking my reading of others posts.
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None of the three above replies were even close. Never saw tooltips before and these boxes have nothing to do with where the cursor is.
Safe mode did not really help either, but it gave me a clue. Several add-ons were disabled with the upgrade. I removed them and reinstalled them. That seems to have cleared up the problem.
Thank you for the suggestions, though.
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That looks like tooltips and you normally see a tooltip if you hover specific elements on a page. If you move the mouse away from this element then the tooltip should close. You can move the mouse around to see what elements trigger a tooltip and then try to avoid these areas.
That fancy tooltip also will appear if you tab through the links in the document to select the time. (It might be easier to double-click a word in the post and then Shift+Tab to tab backwards to the link.)
On my Firefox, when a link is selected, there is a heavy blue box around it. I don't see that on yours, so maybe that isn't why the tooltip is appearing.
It's curious that there appear to be three extra buttons at the upper right of your post, but maybe I just don't use Facebook enough to see those.
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None of the three above replies were even close. Never saw tooltips before and these boxes have nothing to do with where the cursor is.
Safe mode did not really help either, but it gave me a clue. Several add-ons were disabled with the upgrade. I removed them and reinstalled them. That seems to have cleared up the problem.
Thank you for the suggestions, though.
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