How do I get rid of pop up boxes.

I'm setting up a new MacBookPro. I installed Lion and updated Flashplayer. When I'm playing games online, white boxes with links to the system preferences for Flashplayer keep popping up. How do I get rid of the boxes? They're extrememly annoying. I'm running Firefox 5.0.1. The yellow tool tips boxes kept popping up. I got rid of those, but I can't seem to find where to disable the Flashplayer boxes. Is it something simple that I'm missing?
Thanks so much.

Boxes like this one?
If so, those are called tooltips. There is no readily-accessible prefs setting to turn them off.
Googling how to get rid of them in Safari yielded this webpage -
Disable Tooltips in Safari and Firefox | Safari, Firefox | Mac OS X Tips

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