Good news for those of us that use firefox with adblock plus with Ricks easylist subscription. I found an old post by Rick about these exact ads on a forum, Rick has passed away of course but his work is being continued. Here is what he had to say. "I ABSOLUTELY HATE THOSE!!!! Those text-popups are always a priority for me when I add to the EasyList when I go surfing (and thanks for the kudos guys :-) ). I'm sure many others besides myself use the mouse pointer like a finger in a book. To have a stupid window keep popping up over the text I'm trying to read is worse than 10 flash ads on a page ... at least graphical ads don't block the page text. The EasyList should kill ALL those. here is a link to the discussion on mozillazine Stop The Annoying Vibrant In-Text Advertising

I tried all of the above earlier and nothing worked. Then I saw loves2cook4six's instructions in her new thread, tried it word for word, and no more annoying green monsters!! Seriously, try it. It works. Here is a link that might be useful: Ugly Green Hyperlinks - GONE!

Thanks, I knew I could count on someone here. I am an old diehard IE user that keeps up to date with it running windows 7 at the moment. I also have firefox but prefer IE. Knock on wood I do not have the problems some here seem to have with ads, popups, and other annoying things. PS bookmarked that site to get rid of the pest!!

I use Mozilla,and it happens when I click on the topic I am about to enter into on the main page here