<![CDATA[How to stop Opera from following a link on hoover automatically?]]>Nowadays, some news sites are composed of clickable links entirely. Simply, there is barely any space where I could place the mouse cursor that is not a link by design.

And on these sites, I frequently run into a problem with Opera as it follows (e.g. clicks) automatically and without user interaction the first link where I let the mouse rest for 3 seconds or so.

Is there a way to turn this behavior off, by settings, via extension?

Many thanks for any advice!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/49722/how-to-stop-opera-from-following-a-link-on-hoover-automaticallyRSS for NodeMon, 09 Mar 2026 21:54:55 GMTThu, 10 Jun 2021 17:57:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to stop Opera from following a link on hoover automatically? on Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:12:19 GMT]]>@sejtn656b8bfd Could you provide a link to a site that exhibits this behaviour ? I have not noticed this except for scammer websites.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/254446https://forums.opera.com/post/254446Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:12:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to stop Opera from following a link on hoover automatically? on Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:34:49 GMT]]>@sejtn656b8bfd There is not even a setting to turn it on. No idea about extensions.

To be honest, I don't remember even have seen it happening.

Did you try disabling javascript for the page?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/254442https://forums.opera.com/post/254442Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:34:49 GMT