# Chrome - Tooltips(mouseover text) have suddenly stopped working

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443 "2014-09-04T05:35:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443/1 "2014-09-04T05:35:20Z")

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When I hover my mouse over thread titles, I no longer get to see the first few lines. Even Chrome’s ‘New tab’ text when I hover over the new tab button doesn’t show up. XKCD mouseover text doesn’t work anymore! Other browsers work fine, so it’s just Chrome. The internet, for once, is not being helpful in giving a solution to this, so I’m turning to the dope.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443/2 "2014-09-04T14:26:25Z")

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Have you rebooted your machine?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443/3 "2014-09-04T14:37:59Z")

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I’ve found Chrome to be balky at times. Usually, if I just close and reopen it, the problems go away.

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-tooltips-mouseover-text-have-suddenly-stopped-working/697443/4 "2014-09-04T15:39:01Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Have you rebooted your machine?

It may be because Chrome was ‘updated’ in which case you only need to close Chrome and then re-open it, rather than rebooting your whole machine. It just happened to me a few days ago. In other words, what **Chefguy** said.