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How do I disable the webpage preview that pops up when I hover my mouse over a tab?

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Ruakh7
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I don't know why this started today, but it is driving me nuts! I was surfing the net, when all of a sudden I noticed that whenever I hovered my mouse over one of my tabs, a (poorly rendered) preview of the webpage popped up from my mouse. I really do not need this feature. I don't need to have a mini-webpage preview of another tab. Please, how do I disable this feature?

  • note: I have disabled all my add-ons, and still nothing. I disabled my hardware acceleration, and still nothing. Please!
I don't know why this started today, but it is driving me nuts! I was surfing the net, when all of a sudden I noticed that whenever I hovered my mouse over one of my tabs, a (poorly rendered) preview of the webpage popped up from my mouse. I really do not need this feature. I don't need to have a mini-webpage preview of another tab. Please, how do I disable this feature? *note: I have disabled all my add-ons, and still nothing. I disabled my hardware acceleration, and still nothing. Please!

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I've never noticed that. Do these old threads shed any light?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I've never noticed that. Do these old threads shed any light?

cor-el
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Are you sure that you weren't holding down the left mouse button and drag the tab slightly?

Try to set the Boolean pref nglayout.enable_drag_images to false on the about:config page.

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Ruakh7
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Thanks guys! I started in safe mode, saw that the tab previews weren't popping up, and then proceeded to disable each of my add-ons one by one. It turned out to be the FVD thing. Again, thank so much!