annoying yellow hint boxes...

[wilbur_mac]

you know those yellow hint boxes that show up anytime you hover over something for more than a couple seconds?

screen shot: http://wilbcorp.com/downloads/yellowbox.png

they show up across all applications, so i'm assuming it's an os thing... how can i prevent these obnoxious boxes from appearing?

i'm on osx 10.6.4

thanks

 

[Slydude]

Those little boxes are known as tooltips. Some people love them and and some people hate them. I can't decide whether I like them or not. I think the more familiar someone is with a piece of software the more the tips get in the way.

If you only want to get rid of them in Safari try the Terminal command listed in the second post of this thread How to hide links when hovering over ...

If you went to get rid of them in all programs you might want to check out something like TinkerTool

 

[Lifeisabeach]

It's not a system setting. Various apps have their own tricks.

How To Disable Tooltips in Mail and Other Mac Apps? | MGG Answers | The Mac Observer
Disable Tooltips in Safari and Firefox | Safari, Firefox | Mac OS X Tips
disable yellow tooltips mac - Google Search

 

[wilbur_mac]

problem solved... used this command line... delays the tooltip globally for 99 seconds...

defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay 99999

thanks