Anyway to disable mouse-over text boxes in Firefox?

I'm not sure if this is a Windows or a Firefox thing, but I would like to disable these mouse-over text boxes that appear in Firefox. I have looked all over and can't figure out how to turn them off. Any help would be appreciated.

kegobeer said:

The best you can do is press shift or ctrl as you hover over them. That will kill the pop up box.

Thanks Kegobeer, that's a cool little trick that seems to do the job. I still wish there was a way to just turn it off completely.

That's alright, both ctrl and shift work fine. Thanks for the tip.

Yes, does not bother me as such, in fact I quite like the 'preview' given but thanks for the useful tip keg.

Slimer said:

I'm not sure if this is a Windows or a Firefox thing, but I would like to disable these mouse-over text boxes that appear in Firefox. I have looked all over and can't figure out how to turn them off. Any help would be appreciated.

Browser.chrome.toolbar tips - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

When you hover your mouse cursor over various UI elements, a tooltip will often be displayed with descriptive text.
This preference determines whether or not Mozilla will display tooltips.
Possible values and their effects
True
Show tooltips for toolbar buttons, bookmarks, web content, and other items. (Default)
False
Hide all tooltips.

Mozilla Suite and SeaMonkey
The checkbox “Show Tooltips” under “Edit → Preferences → Appearance” toggles this preference between true and false.

Mozilla Suite (all versions since 0.6)
Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
SeaMonkey (all versions)