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I have to say I'm glad I found this. And I'm sad that it's come down to blocking google. This was a major headache as I often scroll through the results using the keys, and each time a new page pops open on the right, which certainly wasn't expected, and nowhere is there a button in search options to disable this. I understand google is under some pressure to be friendly and helpful, but really, a clean simple interface is good for the world, and was google's biggest success. I might have had to find an alternate search site if this was not fixable.

Score one for ad block plus.


urbanrocker
Level 2
11/17/10
The only thing I can suggest is a solution that unfortunately only works for Firefox users however it does in fact work like a charm.

If you have Firefox, you'll need to install the "AdBlock Plus" add-on as well as the ABP 'Element Hiding Helper' extension companion. Once installed, restart and search for anything on google (i.e. "bonsai trees"), then go to the ABP icon in the upper right corner of FF. Click "select an element to hide" and hover over any result on the page or click the magnifying glass icon, a red box will show up over the icon; click it and voila! It's good riddance to this godawful page preview.

Alternatively you can press ctrl+shift+k, hover over a search result until the preview shows up, click on the preview until the red box shows up over the entire thing, click it and all subsequent previews are gone for good.