# Question About Pop-Up "Leaders"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 28, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972 "2004-03-28T21:32:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972/1 "2004-03-28T21:32:52Z")

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I don’t know if that is what it is referred to, sorry. But those pop-ups that contain the first lines of whatever thread title you place your cursor over? I hope that made sense. 😛

I’ve looked in the CP but I can’t find how to turn it off. Quite annoying to me.

Is it possible to turn it off, and if it is, where do I do it?

Thanks in advance. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Draknek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@Draknek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draknek)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972/2 "2004-03-28T21:39:27Z")

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I don’t believe it’s possible to turn it off.

It _might_ be possible to disable it by fiddling with your browser’s settings, but even that I find unlikely.

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**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972/3 "2004-03-28T21:42:16Z")

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Boo hoo! ☹

I must learn to keep my cursor away from the titles then.

Cheers. 😃

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pop-up-leaders/236972/4 "2004-03-29T23:10:34Z")

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If you’re using Netscape, you can. In this thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247662](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247662) someone said there’s a “tool tips” setting in “Preferences”.