# Mouse over preview?????????

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947>\
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**Created:** [August 2, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947 "2010-08-02T23:15:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/1 "2010-08-02T23:15:33Z")

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Is it my imagination or is the mouse over preview function dead? Still works on other sites.

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/2 "2010-08-02T23:18:12Z")

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It worked for me on this thread, so I’d say it’s just your imagination…

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/3 "2010-08-02T23:24:36Z")

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It’s working for me.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/4 "2010-08-03T02:39:15Z")

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I’ve had it not work occasionally, but all I had to do is click on some blank part of the page, and it will work.

Heck, it happened on this very thread.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/5 "2010-08-03T03:32:59Z")

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Works for me if I read fast; it disappears after a few seconds and you have to scroll back around to get it to pop up again.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouse-over-preview/548947/6 "2010-08-03T08:54:46Z")

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Very odd. Works fine now. Sorry about that.