Undo the Snap preview on LJ

From david_de_beer , here's how to turn off the Snap Preview feature of LJ, if it bugs you.

The snap feature on LJ:  Snap is great in theory — you link to something and someone else can hover their mouse over it and get a preview screen of what you’re linking to.

If you don't like it, here's how to turn it off globally, so you don’t see it at all regardless of whether the other person has the snap function activated.

1.  Hover over a link to get the snap window to come up

2.  Click on the little gear-shaped icon in the upper right-hand corner of the pop-up window. (that’s the one in the middle, to the right of the “share” button)

3.  Click disable. This will open a menu in the pop-up window with options to disable for ‘this site’ or for ‘all sites.’ (NOTE: you have to allow a cookie, and if you clear out your cookies, the Snap window will come back.)

(And thanks to the wonderful Caroline Yoachim for the instructions)


To turn it off on your journal, so even if other readers have not disabled the Snap, they still won't see the preview screen, Here’s how:

1.  Log into livejournal.
2.  Click on Journal
3.  Click on Viewing Options
4.  Scroll down until you find Graphic Previews.
5.  Unclick the option to get snap previews of links.