# The Triumph of Glitz -- Wiki on Firefox

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526 "2017-09-17T08:41:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/1 "2017-09-17T08:41:06Z")

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Is this ever annoying. Now, on Firefox, when the cursor lands on a linked word when scrolling down a Wikipedia page, a pictorial popup invades the screen. It stays open until you move the cursor out of the popup. It doesn’t do that in Chrome. Yet.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/2 "2017-09-17T08:49:12Z")

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Whew. It can be disabled using the gear icon on the popup.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/3 "2017-09-17T08:54:09Z")

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Oh. You can “enable previews” at the bottom right of any Wiki page. I guess I must have accidentally clicked it.

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**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/4 "2017-09-17T11:51:44Z")

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I am very fond of this, and have learnt many things otherwise I would not have.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/5 "2017-09-17T12:47:42Z")

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Only does it for me on footnote links. Which is okay by me, it’s useful information presented in an unobtrusive way.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/6 "2017-09-17T13:29:36Z")

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Agreed.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-triumph-of-glitz-wiki-on-firefox/796526/7 "2017-09-17T14:57:58Z")

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I never knew about this feature. I turned it on and think it’s kinda cool. Gonna leave it on and see if I still think that in a few days.

Thanks, OP!