[X4U] Annoying popup links in Mail & Safari

[John Baltutis]

On 05/24/07,  Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 5/24/07 7:59 AM, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> At 11:26 PM -0700 5/23/07, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>>> On 5/23/07 6:36 PM, James Eddy <giametti at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since upgrading to a MacBook Pro with Tiger, I've noticed that when the
>>>> mouse cursor passes over a link in Mail or Safari, the full link pops up in
>>>> a yellow box next to the cursor. I'm thinking that it is a "feature" in
>>>>Tiger.
>>>
>>> I don't use Mail, but I do use Safari and can say with certainty that no
>>> tooltips appear when I hover over a link.
>>
>> That's true for me, too. Eddie, do you have some third-party enhancer
>> installed for Safari?
>
> Maybe I wasn't clear. I DO NOT have the yellow boxes appear in Safari when
> the cursor is placed over a link. And I do not use any Safari enhancers.

IIRC, tooltips are on by default in Tiger's Safari. I don't use Mail, so can
say anything about that app. To see if it's ever been changed, type in this
terminal command:

defaults read com.apple.safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips

0 indicates off and 1 indicates on. See this hint for details about Safari's
tooltips <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070519173316942>.