Turn off the link hover statusbar in Google Chrome
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Mar 15, 2026119418 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I want to turn off the feature where whenever I hover over a hyperlink and in the bottom lefthand corner it shows a light blue hover tooltip about where that link goes. Why do I want to turn it off? It's annoying to me. I am distracted as I work. None of the other browsers do it. Besides, it serves…
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Fix for: Turn off the link hover statusbar in Google Chrome
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You cannot turn off the status bar. Most of the time you're not even supposed to see it. It only shows up when it needs to. It's more convenience than security since you can spoof it with JavaScript. Even if you didn't want it to appear every time y…
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