{"id":2336,"date":"2021-08-07T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2022-04-10T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T21:32:03","slug":"disabling-tab-hover-cards-in-ms-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/2021\/08\/disabling-tab-hover-cards-in-ms-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling tab hover cards in MS Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a previous blog post I listed the steps for <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/2019\/11\/how-to-stop-showing-box-appears-when-mousing-over-chrome-tabs\/\" title=\"How to stop showing box that appears when mousing over Chrome tabs\">disabling tab hover cards in Chrome<\/a> but now I must share how to do the same in the Microsoft Edge web browser. If you&#8217;re using MS Edge and not sure what a tab hover card is, move your mouse cursor to a tab, leave it there for a second and a rectangular box will appear displaying the website&#8217;s &#8220;title&#8221; and then below that will be the website&#8217;s favicon and domain name. See the below screenshot of what a tab hover card looks like for this website&#8217;s homepage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ms-edge-tab-hover-card.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Tab Hover Card in the Microsoft Edge browser\" class=\"wp-image-2337\"\/><figcaption>Screenshot of a Tab Hover Card in the Microsoft Edge browser<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Steps to turn off tab hover cards in MS Edge<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>In Edge&#8217;s address bar, type in (or copy\/paste): edge:\/\/flags\/#tab-hover-cards<\/li><li>On the right side, change the drop-down from &#8220;Default&#8221; to &#8220;Disabled&#8221;<\/li><li>You will have to click the &#8220;Restart&#8221; button at the bottom in order for this change to take effect and you&#8217;re done<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you ever need to turn it back on in the future, just follow the same steps above and change the drop-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous blog post I listed the steps for disabling tab hover cards in Chrome but now I must share how to do the same in the Microsoft Edge web browser. If you&#8217;re using MS Edge and not sure what a tab hover card is, move your mouse cursor to a tab, leave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[58,68],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}