Anyway to remove those anoying "word-popup" in firefox?

mixtr · 12-26-2006, 10:57 AM

You know those words on webpages that are double-underline and if you put your mouse over it, or accidentally put your mouse over it while scrolling down a page with your mouse-wheel, a window will appear with an explanation/publicity associated with that word? (For example see [HTML]www.flexbeta.net[/HTML])

I hate them.

Does anybody know how to remove them in firefox? Is there an option in about:config or an extension to remove them?

Hammett · 12-26-2006, 11:05 AM

I don't think you can get rid of it, because it's build on the website. Maybe there's an option hidden in FF to disable the loading of those windows, but I don't think it's possible.
I haven't seen any option to make this. You can have a look at firefox's extensions website to see if there's something of your interest

raskin · 12-26-2006, 11:18 AM

adblock'ing javascript that does these popups works great. Also you can make javascript off by default and use NoScript to switch it on when necessary.

dive · 12-26-2006, 03:50 PM

Adblock works for me.

mixtr · 12-26-2006, 07:39 PM

You are right about Adblock, it seems those words are tagged from another site, blocking that site removes the tags.
Thanks