Assorted Firfox issues

Factual Questions
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#1) Firefox normally is bad at displaying the mousover preview boxes in vBulletin software. I used the add-on here, but it’s not suppored by Firfox and the author says he no longer updates it or anything. In addition, it’s not perfect. I don’t get the preview unless the cursor is over the link to the thread. In IE, the preview appears if the cursor is anywhere in the “row” for that thread. Plus, sometimes, a preview window will stay if I minimize a window (for those that wonder how this is possible, I don’t need to move my mouse to the minimize button. I have the side-button on the right side of my mouse set to minimize the active window. Extremely handy.) But, as said, sometimes when this is done the preview window stays (it seems to do it if I min the window and there are no other active windows and I go to the desktop.) Is there a better add-on out there that lets me use the preview window without these issues?

#2) When I open FF, either through a link in an external program or through the shortcut, it starts maximized. However, if then click on a link set to open in a new tab, FF then reacts as if I hit that middle button in the upper right corner of the window. It goes to about half the size.

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Mind if I tack on a question that hasn’t been important enough to warrant its own thread?

One odd thing I’ve noticed with my Firefox is that if I have several tabs open, there is a strange anomaly that I can only describe as a “hole” in the tab. I’ll be in, say a CNN tab, with the SDMB open in another. Somehow, everyonce in a while, I’ll actually get the mouseover preview in my CNN tab for no apparent reason. I’ve even had it happen once or twice when the SDMB tab has actually been closed - like a ghost mouseover preview. It’s not actually a real problem, which is why I’ve never opened a thread about it, but wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

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For #1, I reinstalled Firefox. I usually get the previews, but they don’t stay popped up for very long, but it is enough for me to get the point of the post. So I’d update your Firefox version - it might help a bit. I never used to get the previews before updating.

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Just giving a quick bump. And I have the most recent version of Firefox, 1.5.