Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Every 15 seconds or so mysterious letters in little boxes show up on a > displayed page, email or news feed in any of the above applications. They > seem to appear above links only and last on the page for 15 seconds or so and > will return again in the same time period. If I push the ctrl button it will > turn the characters off but again will return. > My question how do I stop these character boxes from returning permanently > because they are driving me nuts. Sounds like some accessibility feature you can meddle with in the KDE "Control center". If you tap Ctrl in Konqueror for example you can get these named links, Ctrl again toggles them off. Sounds like they are somehow on by default at the moment. -Andy