Posted by fatius at May 4th, 2007

A few months ago (give or take), nytimes.com added a feature that opened a popup window when you double clicked on a word in an article. It pops up a dictionary definition of the selected word.

Well, when I read the stuff on the web, I compulsively click on and select the text. I don’t know why I do it, perhaps you do it to. My little habit and the new feature were not compatible… until today.

Here’s how you disable that feature in Firefox:

If you haven’t already, install the adblock extension. Click on it and filter the following text out:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/*altClickToSearch.js

Click on the image to see the adblock window:

adblock.png

Tada!