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Why firefox 3.6.13 when I click on a link put small dots all around it?

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When I instaled new version of firefox it started to put small dots around links when i click on them . This bugs me because on my webpage this looks ugly. Thanks for your answers. Dario

When I instaled new version of firefox it started to put small dots around links when i click on them . This bugs me because on my webpage this looks ugly. Thanks for your answers. Dario

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You can stop this by changing a hidden preference.

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference browser.display.focus_ring_width, double-click on it and change its value to 0 (zero).

For more details on that preference see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.display.focus_ring_width

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You can stop this by changing a hidden preference.

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference browser.display.focus_ring_width, double-click on it and change its value to 0 (zero).

For more details on that preference see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.display.focus_ring_width

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Thank you very much.

This solved my problem.

But other people still have this problem and they are not aware of it. :)

I think this should be defalt setting on mozzila.

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That is part of the advanced accessibility preferences in Firefox.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility_features_of_Firefox

I have that pref set to 3, so I can easily see where I have clicked the previous time on a page with a lot of links that I want to open. If I've visited them before then the visited status doesn't work.