Tooltips in Safari
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Every time I hover over a link in Safari a small pop-up box appears with the URL. How can I get rid of these annoying boxes? The computer is running Mac OS 10.5.6.
The boxes that are appearing are called tooltips. This feature was enabled by default in earlier versions of Safari but in the latest version (Safari 4) it seems to be disabled by default. Therefore, in the first instance I would recommend that you upgrade your version of Safari to the latest using Software Update. However, if you find that the problem continues then there is a command-line modification we can make to disable this function. Make sure Safari is closed and then open a Terminal window (in the Finder, go to the “Go” menu > “Utilities” and open “Terminal”). In the Terminal window type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips 0
and press ENTER. This should disable the tooltips. If you ever wish to re-enable the tooltips, just run the command again but replace the 0 with a 1.
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