I finally got the chat feature in GMail and have to say that I am mostly impressed. The only "feature" that came close to making me turn it off was the annoying popup that shows up when hovering over names -- give us the option to turn those off, please!
I finally got the chat feature in GMail and have to say that I am mostly impressed. The only "feature" that came close to making me turn it off was the annoying popup that shows up when hovering over names -- give us the option to turn those off, please!
I didn't want to disable the chat functionality completely because I can actually see some use in this feature, and I really want to like it. So I turned to Greasemonkey and created a user script that disables those popups myself.
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that lets developers create scripts to add or change functionality on websites by using javascript. If you have Greasemonkey installed, you can get the user script I created here, or make your own to do the same task. My solution is a bit of a hack -- it disables all "mouseover" events. I haven't seen any side-effects after installing my script but feel free to edit it yourself.
Governments
should
use
antitrust
law
to
break
up
tech
giants
like
Google,
Facebook
and
Amazon,
argues
Tim
Wu,
in
order
to
restore
dynamism
and
foster
innovation.
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