Un-Snap Your Hyperlinks

Already tired of the relatively new Snap “feature” that pops up an annoying little preview balloon over every hyperlink on certain web sites? Well, it turns out it’s pretty easy to get rid of them, everywhere. Just click here to disable the feature using cookie technology (or, go to the Snap page that discusses deactivation and click the link from there).

Before discovering this little quick fix (thanks, Paul!), I’d noticed the Options menu available in each Snap window, which lets you “opt out” of the feature on a site-by-site basis, or across the board:

I, of course, killed them globally and only reactivated them for the screenshots in this post. My web browsing has been much more pleasant since.

Already tired of the relatively new Snap “feature” that pops up an annoying little preview balloon over every hyperlink on certain web sites? Well, it turns out it’s pretty easy to get rid of them, everywhere. Just click here to disable the feature using cookie technology (or, go to the Snap page that discusses deactivation and click the link from there).

Before discovering this little quick fix (thanks, Paul!), I’d noticed the Options menu available in each Snap window, which lets you “opt out” of the feature on a site-by-site basis, or across the board:

I, of course, killed them globally and only reactivated them for the screenshots in this post. My web browsing has been much more pleasant since.