[Tip] Disable New Tab Hover Pop-ups and Restore Classic Tab Tooltips in Google Chrome
If you upgraded to new version of Google Chrome web browser, you might have noticed the new pop-ups or labels which appear when you hover over a tab. As soon as you move your mouse cursor over a tab, Chrome shows a new pop-up preview containing tab information such as webpage title and URL or web address.
Following screenshot shows the new tab hover pop-up UI in Google Chrome:
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This new feature is called “Tab Hover Cards” which replaces the classic and traditional tab tooltip in Chrome. In previous versions of Chrome, this feature was disabled by default and we needed to manually activate and enable it. We told yo about this feature in following tutorial:
[Tip] Enable New “Tab Hover Cards” Feature in Google Chrome
Now Google has enabled it in newer versions of Chrome browser and all users who installed or upgraded to latest version of Chrome, get the new tab hover card feature activated and enabled by default.
This new Tab Hover Card feature might be annoying to some people as the pop-up preview appears immediately as soon as a user moves the cursor over or near a tab. Sometimes a Chrome user might move the cursor over a tab to close or move the tab or click on the tab or perform some other operation on the tab and if the new pop-up appears, it might annoy or distract the user.
Fortunately there is a way to get rid of the new tab hover card or pop-up UI. You can disable the new tab pop-up and restore classic tab tooltips in Chrome with the help of this tutorial.
Following screenshot shows classic tab tooltip restored in Google Chrome:
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Following steps will help you in turning off new tab hover pop-up and bring back previous tab tooltip feature in Google Chrome web browser:
1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.
2. Now type tab hover card in the “Search flags” box.
It’ll directly go to following option:
Tab Hover Cards
Enables a popup containing tab information to be visible when hovering over a tab. This will replace tooltips for tabs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#tab-hover-cards
3. Select Disabled for Tab Hover Cards option from the drop-down box.
4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.
That’s it. Now hover mouse cursor over any tab and you’ll get the classic tab tooltip showing only the website title.
PS: If you want to re-enable new Tab Hover Cards feature in future, select “Default” option from the drop-down box and restart the browser.
BONUS TIP:
If you are among those people who actually liked the new tab hover cards feature in Chrome, you can add extra web page thumbnail preview image to the new card as shown in following screenshot:
Check out following tutorial to learn how to show web page thumbnail preview images in tab hover cards in Google Chrome browser:
[Tip] Add Web Page Thumbnail Preview Image to New Tab Hover Cards in Google Chrome
Also Check:
[Tip] Disable or Remove Thumbnail Preview Images in Tab Hover Cards in Google Chrome
Thank you for this information.
Thanks, the new tabs was beginning to annoy me.
Thanks, i really don’t know why does google come up with such idiotic features
Thanks!! that annoyed
Great Article, thanks.
I can’t see any reason to have the tool-tip at all, either the new version or the old version. They are both intrusive and only repeat what is already in front of our eyes. I’ve reverted to the older, small version but it’s still, and always has been, annoying. Get rid of it altogether. Tell your techs to produce useful enhancements, not just new ways to repeat what’s already there!
I actually would have liked it (the speed is wonderful to me), but the only thing killing it for me is that the hover cards don’t show the ENTIRE title. Poor decision for lengthy titles. I’ll have to cobble together a bookmarklet or something to display the full title somehow, for when this flag is inevitably removed. :[ Otherwise I’d be constantly trying to view the page source for the title, like some kind of insane person. Gimme my full page titles, rage rage rage, why.
And @Genie maybe you’ve never had 20+ tabs open in one window and can’t keep track of them all? It is useful to me, dangit. Especially when I’m researching things.
Thanks verymuch this new feature is annoyed, I think wanna change browser not using chrome again if this can’t disable
Thank you for explaining how to remove the “Tab Hover Cards” in a simple manner. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!! They were annoying.
Thank you so much for this!
Thanx!
Thank you for the tip.
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for this tip which has proven most useful.
Thanks for this tip, immediately disabled..
Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot
Thanks for the tip. And I agree it’s a useless function anyway.
Thank you so much!! I only had the feature for like 10 minutes and it was driving me c.zy!
This new “feature” is BEHIND annoying, unnecessary and plain stupid.
No reason, no logic….
Thanks for the info, really helpful.
thanks so much that stupid feature annoyed the hell out of me i literally was going to replace this browser because of it
Pointless, stupid idiotic feature.
Thanks, your how to saved my nerves from this dummy feature
Helped a lot! Thanks!
Thankyouthankyouthankyou 😀 … this completely unnecessary ‘upgrade’ was so F***ING ANNOYING!!! … did you hear me shouting google? Have you got the message yet?
Thanks it helped.
Thank you so much for your response I will be fine with the right way to do it was happening so much more than happy to help you, Thanks
In Chrome dev version, as of 4-24-2020, no way to disable. Tab Hover Cards doesn’t even appear in Experiments.
Thank you. Stupid annoying feature.
No way to disable new tool tip pop up 02/10/21
Anybody figure it out yet?