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Apparently, someone has created a thing called AddThis that can be put into any webpage design. Supposedly, it is to help the reader share the great webpage they've found (or something??). Really, it seems to just be a way for a web designer to attract more page hits.
I find the default setting that causes a rather large (say 5 times larger than icon on the webpage itself) menu to drop down whenever a cursor passes over to be incredibly annoying! If you move your mouse to bring the cursor down the page to reach a link or start to select some text and pass over this AddThis icon, the menu pops down covering a huge area which is often the exact area you are trying to click on. How anyone could think a web surfer would desire this behavor is beyond me.
I am hoping there is a way in FF to stop this kind of behavor. I would like to find a setting or an add-on that could block it altogether (an AdBlock for AddThis).
Any ideas?
== web designers starting adding AddThis to their pages.

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