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Turn off tool tips in Firefox

If you use Firefox, you can pretty easily configure your browser so that it no longer show Tool tips. Just type about:config in the address bar and scroll down the list of preferences until you find one called browser.chrome.toolbar_tips. Once you find it, double click on it and the value will change from true to false... which is the setting that disables the tool tips from being shown.
Rating: 92% positive, 13 total Votes
Categories: browsers firefox customization
Added: on Jan 22, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: firefox browser tip tool customization

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I did this, changing the value from true to false. Had no effect whatsoever. Tooltips still showing up. Anyway to put a delay on them as is suggested for MAC systems?
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 19, 2008 at 2:53 am
This worked for me. But I had to completely close the browser and restart Firefox for it to do anything. Maybe that's what you need to do?
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:10 am
on doing this. msg shown
"The URL is not valid and cannt be loaded"
– Added by an anonymous user on May 16, 2008 at 1:22 am
I typed: about:config in stead of about::config

Works great!!!
– Added by an anonymous user on May 30, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Yes, it should have been about:config all along
– Added by an anonymous user on Sep 15, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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