Adjusting time for mouse-over text

Factual Questions
1

Firefox/3.5.7 Win 7.
Is there a way to adjust the time mouse-over text remains up?
It seems that there is too much to read many times and moving the cursor off then on also moves the text, I wind up spending too long just finding my place.

Is it possible to enlarge the font, larger letters would be much easier to read.

Thanks for your help!

2

I seem to recall there was an add-in for this - but I can’t find it now. I’ll look a little more.

3

I’ve been wondering this, too. I believe Google Chromium leaves up the text until you move your mouse, which is much better.

4

I asked this question years ago but didn’t really get any sort of an answer. Hopefully someone can come up with something this time, because it annoys me too!

5

There may be something about this in Firefox about:config. I didn’t look further. Google ~ about:config and go to knowledge base, I think, and there is a link in there for many options, features, whatever.

6

Found this in a quick search, though there might be others:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11233

IIRC the problem has also been fixed in Firefox 3.6 release candidates, so in the future you won’t need an addon.

7

That worked, thanks Henrichek!

8

Hallelujah, Henrichek Thank you very much. Now I don’t even have to read the short ones twice, trying to beat the timeout.

9

Awesome find, Henrichek. I forget the details, but I believe the hover-over text USED to persist, and then some upgrade did away with it. I know I filed a bug report, and so did many others. For awhile, I received emails about test patches people were developing, but I never understood how to test them out myself. Then I dumped my ISP and stopped receiving updates.

This add-on is awesome (but really shouldn’t be necessary at all.) Thanks!

10

Is there a similar extension for Chrome users?

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I agree, but as I said, the problem is fixed for Firefox 3.6 which is due to be released soon, and then the addon will be unnecessary as it should be. There is already a release candidate available that should be stable at this point, and it can be downloaded here:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html