Disable Annoying Firefox Tooltips

Oct 30th, 06

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.

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  1. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by Kenno — November 1, 2006 @ 1:54 pm

  2. MyAvatars 0.2

    try it

    Comment by p+k — November 4, 2006 @ 12:08 am

  3. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank *uck for that – I was pulling my hair out…..

    Nice one mate :)

    Comment by Tompz — November 12, 2006 @ 9:19 pm

  4. MyAvatars 0.2

    Glad to know that I can help.
    Cheers.

    Comment by p+k — November 12, 2006 @ 9:58 pm

  5. MyAvatars 0.2

    I was going to have to kill someone over this. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

    Comment by Anonymous — November 15, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

  6. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank you.

    Comment by Anonymous — December 8, 2006 @ 7:51 pm

  7. MyAvatars 0.2

    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

    Comment by Anonymous — December 19, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

  8. MyAvatars 0.2

    thank you! this was a great help!

    Comment by Anonymous — December 20, 2006 @ 8:37 am

  9. MyAvatars 0.2

    The bug’s still there in 2.0.0.1 for OS X. Thanks for the workaround!

    Comment by Anonymous — December 27, 2006 @ 6:18 pm

  10. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous — December 29, 2006 @ 12:13 am

  11. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks!

    I was losing my mind over these “yellow bastards”. :)

    Comment by Jrma — January 22, 2007 @ 10:07 am

  12. MyAvatars 0.2

    THanks a lot. It was a very annoying feauture.

    cheers!

    Comment by rodrigo — March 1, 2007 @ 2:09 pm

  13. MyAvatars 0.2

    I’ve been trying to get rid of that for ages, thanks VERY much.

    Comment by Anonymous — March 19, 2007 @ 11:50 am

  14. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank. You!

    Comment by Anonymous — March 20, 2007 @ 11:24 pm

  15. MyAvatars 0.2

    Do you know how to disable the tooltips in Apple programs, ie iTunes, iPhoto, iMove, ect?

    Thank you.

    Comment by Happy — March 31, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

  16. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by FJ — April 4, 2007 @ 1:03 pm

  17. MyAvatars 0.2

    Great!!! get rid of it finaly!

    Thanks a lot!

    Comment by Anonymous — April 13, 2007 @ 3:48 pm

  18. MyAvatars 0.2

    Adding my thanks to the long list…This made me nuts.

    Comment by Scott — April 18, 2007 @ 5:49 pm

  19. MyAvatars 0.2

    Great tip – thanks

    Comment by CSL — April 30, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

  20. MyAvatars 0.2

    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

    Comment by Anonymous — May 20, 2007 @ 4:21 pm

  21. MyAvatars 0.2

    I’m afraid to say that firefox doesn’t provide that flexibility.

    Comment by p+k — May 21, 2007 @ 3:53 am

  22. MyAvatars 0.2

    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 :D

    http://alloscomp.com/xtt.xpi

    That’ll disable the favicon, go button, and throbber tooltips.

    I’m gonna make a better version eventually.

    Comment by Eric — May 23, 2007 @ 11:01 pm

  23. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by p+k — May 24, 2007 @ 2:31 am

  24. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by Timothy — July 13, 2007 @ 5:46 am

  25. MyAvatars 0.2

    you’re my hero!

    Comment by Anonymous — July 17, 2007 @ 12:37 am

  26. MyAvatars 0.2

    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.

    Comment by Brian — July 17, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

  27. MyAvatars 0.2

    THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU

    Comment by Anonymous — July 27, 2007 @ 7:06 pm

  28. MyAvatars 0.2

    *POOF* goes that mosquito in my year

    Comment by Anonymous — August 1, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

  29. MyAvatars 0.2

    THANK YOU!!! <3333

    Comment by RedForty — August 6, 2007 @ 11:01 pm

  30. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank you!

    Comment by Robert — October 25, 2007 @ 2:14 pm

  31. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks! good God!

    Comment by monkeydo — October 26, 2007 @ 10:23 am

  32. MyAvatars 0.2

    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!!!

    Comment by Nieuwenhuizen — November 7, 2007 @ 4:34 am

  33. MyAvatars 0.2

    @Nieuwenhuizen: I haven’t further into to this. Please read a comment posted by Eric above.

    Comment by phalkunz — November 7, 2007 @ 11:04 am

  34. MyAvatars 0.2

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  35. MyAvatars 0.2

    very good.

    Comment by samsung battery — May 30, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

  36. MyAvatars 0.2

    works in RC3! thanks a ton

    Comment by yakov — June 11, 2008 @ 6:33 am

  37. MyAvatars 0.2

    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*

    Comment by oboirex — June 25, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

  38. MyAvatars 0.2

    Man, thanks a LOT !!!!!
    This is VERY ANNOYING, I’m thinking about shift to Explorer…. You made my day !

    Comment by Marcelo — June 27, 2008 @ 6:34 am

  39. MyAvatars 0.2

    It happened to me too, luckly I came here and is fixed now.. thanks.

    Comment by Anwar Vazquez — July 4, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

  40. MyAvatars 0.2

    excellent tip. had this problem with firefox 2.0.0.15 on ubuntu linux. this is a great tip.

    Comment by cocobanderos — July 13, 2008 @ 10:35 am

  41. MyAvatars 0.2

    thank you so much. it was really annoying… but i love firefox…

    Comment by stetisign — October 25, 2008 @ 6:24 am

  42. MyAvatars 0.2

    This problem is STILL around, in Firefox 3. (I’m using OSX.) Why haven’t they changed this yet? Thanks for the tip!

    Comment by Jamie — November 14, 2008 @ 6:05 pm

  43. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks for posting this. iGoogle has a tendency to make tooltips for links that take up half the screen. Now they are gone thanks to your config change. Yay!

    Now only if i could disable tooltips entirely in Windows. It does more harm than good most of the time.

    Comment by Teebo — January 7, 2009 @ 7:15 am

  44. MyAvatars 0.2

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  45. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks you very much, I had the same problem and that was starting to really get on my nerves.

    Comment by El ranchero — April 8, 2009 @ 12:07 am

  46. MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank you
    That has been driving me crazy (short drive obviously)

    Comment by KeithO — June 15, 2009 @ 8:57 am

  47. MyAvatars 0.2

    Uhhhhgggggg. THANKS!

    Comment by Joe Mahma — October 25, 2009 @ 5:13 am

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