Safari yellow hover-over pop ups

I have no idea how this began or when but it's been a few weeks now.
you know this hover-over bar that appears with more information when you hover over something for a few seconds, well now it has started appearing constantly, all the time, without delay that is, it's really annoying, it obscures allot of the things i'm actually wanting to move my cursor over. like pictures or even the menu buttons.
So far i haven't noticed it in any other applications, just Safari and google chrome.
any ideas?

The popup is called a tooltip or help tag.  See
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/OnlineHelp/Concepts/To oltips.html
To turn them off:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips 0
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2007/02/termtooltips/index.php
states that
defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay -int 10000
From now on, tooltips won’t appear until you’ve hovered for 10 seconds over a given onscreen control for every application (the -g bit means “global change”).
To change only Safari, try:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSInitialToolTipDelay -int 10000

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