# Is the mouse-over pop-up box gone? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 9, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222 "2005-11-09T16:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/1 "2005-11-09T16:29:59Z")
Pity. I kinda liked it…save for the fact that I hang out in Cafe Society usually and people tend to forget about its spoilerific tendencies. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/2 "2005-11-09T16:32:13Z")
It’s still there for me. Don’t know why you’re not seeing it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/3 "2005-11-09T16:34:06Z")
Works here too. Looks like an issue with your browser… or maybe just try again. Remember, it may take a second or two to show up ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/4 "2005-11-09T18:22:40Z")
When this happened to me, I got the mouseovers back when I cleared my IE temporary files. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/5 "2005-11-09T18:54:31Z")
> [@JohnM](#): > > When this happened to me, I got the mouseovers back when I cleared my IE temporary files. This has happened with me as well. Sometimes it just takes a bit to load. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/6 "2005-11-10T02:33:56Z")
I’ve also noticed it won’t come up when you mouseover a moved thread. I doubt this is the problem, but I felt proud for noticing this. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/7 "2005-11-10T19:51:02Z")
And it also happens with threads over a certain age. Not sure exactly what the age is, but from what I’ve seen, I’m guessing about two years or older… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/8 "2005-11-10T21:10:56Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > And it also happens with threads over a certain age. Not sure exactly what the age is, but from what I’ve seen, I’m guessing about two years or older… IIRC, the threads that were initiated under the older BB system (uBulletin? whichever) don’t have mouseovers. I seem to think the other software didn’t support it. Or maybe that was just an older version of vB. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/9 "2005-11-10T23:21:25Z")
I’ve had this problem more than once. Usually a signal that I need to run AdAware and Spybot. That always seems to fix it for me. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mouse-over-pop-up-box-gone/330222/10 "2005-11-10T23:59:23Z")
What everybody said (gee, thanks folks, for answering this for us, it’s always great when Dopers can do it for themselves!) We didn’t start getting the mouseover information until a fairly recent version of vB, so older posts will not contain this data. Sorry about that. TubaDiva