# Love the Hover

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-the-hover/344471>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-the-hover/344471 "2006-02-14T16:48:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-the-hover/344471/1 "2006-02-14T16:48:21Z")

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I just noticed today that **My Yahoo** has added a feature where if you hover your mouse over the article link, you get a popup showing the first few lines of the article.

I was just wishing for this feature the other day, for all news sites. It’s so very annoying to actually have to click on the link to figure out what the article is about.

The hover feature on this board, and on Netflix, has really spoiled me.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-the-hover/344471/2 "2006-02-14T16:50:26Z")

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Ah, the joys of a fast connection. Back when I was on dialup at home, I couldn’t get to the SDMB because the hovers took too long to load–any time you come close to one, it starts to download it, so I’d move my mouse towards a thread title and the system would just lock up.