30 Oct 2006
Disable Annoying Firefox Tooltips
Drag-and-Drop is the beauty of the GUI but sometimes other thing gets in the way that makes it useless. The most annoying drag-and-drop I have ever come across is when I try to drag the address of a website (by dragging the icon) from the firefox address box and place it on the bookmark toolbar folder but before I drop it in the folder a tooltip with a message “drag and drop this icon to create a link to this page”. It sounds good, right? The folder I wanna place a bookmark is under that tooltip. After I drop the link and I check the folder the link it’s not even there because that tooltip block it from going in. I was like grrrrrrr. I think this happens to mac version only. But lucky enough, firefox provides a way to turn it off. Go type “about:config” in the address box and hit the enter. It shows a list of configurable feature, find “browser.chrome.toolbar_tips” item and double-click to turn it value to false. That’s set.
Kenno Says:
Does this problem occur to you with Firefox on Mac OSX? I don’t experience this with Firefox 2.0 on Linux at all. Well, I saw the (so-claimed) annoying tooltip message (:P), but as soon as I drag the icon out of the addressbar, the tooltip disappears as well. Maybe I should try it with Firefox on my pb too.
p+k Says:
try it
Tompz Says:
Thank *uck for that - I was pulling my hair out…..
Nice one mate
p+k Says:
Glad to know that I can help.
Cheers.
Anonymous Says:
I was going to have to kill someone over this. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
Anonymous Says:
Thank you.
Anonymous Says:
You are the man! This has driven me nuts for a long time. Kinda makes me wonder if they use their own browser since that would be an obvious annoyance that any basic user would come across.
Many many thanks for sharing this tip!
jh
Anonymous Says:
thank you! this was a great help!
Anonymous Says:
The bug’s still there in 2.0.0.1 for OS X. Thanks for the workaround!
Anonymous Says:
It’s fixed for me (v2.0.0.1 for Windows).
I just wish I could have tooltips turned off generally but turned on for the one specific use I have for them - Forecastfox.
When you hover over the little icon it gives you more info about the forecast in a tooltip, I could set it to display the label on the toolbar along with the icon but I already have a lot of stuff on that toolbar and don’t need any more.
Jrma Says:
Thanks!
I was losing my mind over these “yellow bastards”.
rodrigo Says:
THanks a lot. It was a very annoying feauture.
cheers!
Anonymous Says:
I’ve been trying to get rid of that for ages, thanks VERY much.
Anonymous Says:
Thank. You!
Happy Says:
Do you know how to disable the tooltips in Apple programs, ie iTunes, iPhoto, iMove, ect?
Thank you.
FJ Says:
Thanks alot! I was going nuts over this one. But I still find it strange that FireFox does not give any feedback at all when you drag and drop URL’s on the bookmark toolbar, it feels pretty numb.
Anonymous Says:
Great!!! get rid of it finaly!
Thanks a lot!
Scott Says:
Adding my thanks to the long list…This made me nuts.
CSL Says:
Great tip - thanks
Anonymous Says:
That’s much better. Thanks. But it disabled all tooltips, including the ones I want (so I can see the url of a bookmark). Any way to only disable the address bar tip?
JD
p+k Says:
I’m afraid to say that firefox doesn’t provide that flexibility.
Eric Says:
I have to disagree with that one. Firefox’s about:config doesn’t allow that, but the bastard child that is XUL/Javascript based extensions does
http://alloscomp.com/xtt.xpi
That’ll disable the favicon, go button, and throbber tooltips.
I’m gonna make a better version eventually.
p+k Says:
what I really mean wasn’t it’s not impossible but i meant i couldn’t do it and about:config doesn’t provide a flexibility to do so.
Anyways, Good job Eric. Thanks for info. I’ll try that one out when I’m free.
Cheeers.
Timothy Says:
Wow, Thanks for the fix to THE MOST ANNOYING FIREFOX BUG EVER! This has been annoying me for two years now! Thank God I’m rid of it.
Anonymous Says:
you’re my hero!
Brian Says:
Man this was way worse than no drag and drop here on my macbook. the tool tips occasionally wouldn’t go away when firefox (or thunderbird) where hidden. These blank yellow orphaned rectangles would be in the foreground over every other app! thanks for the tip.
Anonymous Says:
THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU
Anonymous Says:
*POOF* goes that mosquito in my year
RedForty Says:
THANK YOU!!! <3333
Robert Says:
Thank you!
monkeydo Says:
Thanks! good God!
Nieuwenhuizen Says:
Great! but now we need to start an offensive to kill the “yellow bastards” everywhere!
There must be a way to get rid of all things that pop up!
Who can help!!!
phalkunz Says:
@Nieuwenhuizen: I haven’t further into to this. Please read a comment posted by Eric above.
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very good.
yakov Says:
works in RC3! thanks a ton
oboirex Says:
Bless you for having this…
Funny how I could not find info on this within Firefox’s own “help” Seriously, the word “tooltips” had no return in the searches
*shrugs*
Marcelo Says:
Man, thanks a LOT !!!!!
This is VERY ANNOYING, I’m thinking about shift to Explorer…. You made my day !
Anwar Vazquez Says:
It happened to me too, luckly I came here and is fixed now.. thanks.
cocobanderos Says:
excellent tip. had this problem with firefox 2.0.0.15 on ubuntu linux. this is a great tip.