# Mouse-over feature turned off, or is it just me? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 22, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055 "2004-11-22T05:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/1 "2004-11-22T05:40:44Z")
I’ve noticed this not working for the past hour or so. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/2 "2004-11-22T05:46:25Z")
Works fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/3 "2004-11-22T07:50:24Z")
Works fine for me, even while using Firefox, which doesn’t like alt tags. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/4 "2004-11-22T08:48:01Z")
Well sheesh. Maybe I should just reboot. Thanks, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/5 "2004-11-23T17:38:05Z")
test browser issue good day ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/6 "2004-11-23T17:50:38Z")
Works for me (unfortunately) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/7 "2004-11-23T23:03:14Z")
Tell me about it. I hate it. You can’t rest your mouse pointer anywhere centrally without the stupid annoying yellow boxes coming up. An irritation I would rather live without. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/8 "2004-11-24T17:21:24Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Tell me about it. I hate it. You can’t rest your mouse pointer anywhere centrally without the stupid annoying yellow boxes coming up. > > An irritation I would rather live without. I agree. I changed browsers recently, my old one didn’t support the mouse-over feature. I didn’t know just how lucky I was ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/9 "2004-11-24T19:52:44Z")
Works for me, and I find it a very useful feature. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/10 "2004-11-24T20:46:14Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > Works for me, and I find it a very useful feature. It has it’s uses (like, well, seeing some of the thread without opening it) but It’s not often I need to do that and it gets in the way when you are looking at thread titles to click on. It would be better if it didn’t get activated even when mousovering the space after the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/11 "2004-11-30T21:18:40Z")
A couple of things I’ve noticed… IE seems to show about half a paragraph on the mouseover, but Mozilla only gives me about half a sentence. The other odd thing I’ve noticed with Mozilla is that I often get a little mouseover text box popping up even after the thread has opened! YMMV… ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/12 "2004-12-02T15:59:53Z")
Interesting…I’m still getting the mouseover (using Firefox 1.0, FTR), but there’s a delay of a fraction of a second, and I have to hold the pointer over the thread title to get the balloon text. I like that much better than before, where I had to keep the pointer way over to the right of the screen or else have them popping up constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-feature-turned-off-or-is-it-just-me/276055/13 "2004-12-02T22:04:41Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I agree. I changed browsers recently, my old one didn’t support the mouse-over feature. I didn’t know just how lucky I was ☹ Now I’ve got to put up with it [here](http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=13&broadcastType=1&jspGridLocation=/jsp/tv_listings_grid.jsp&jspListLocation=/jsp/tv_listings_single.jsp&jspError=/jsp/error.jsp) too ☹ Bloody irritating.