# Mouseover in Firefox
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [December 3, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896 "2004-12-03T15:14:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/1 "2004-12-03T15:14:41Z")
**DooWahDiddy** asked this question before, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=274366), but it was never really answered. Why does the mouse-over preview tooltip show 30+ characters in IE, but only about 10 in Mozilla Firefox?
Is this forum- or browser-dependent?
Do other browsers do this?
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### Author:  [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/2 "2004-12-03T15:28:24Z")
I’m using FireFox and when I mouseover this thread I saw DooWahDiddy asked this question before, here, but it was never really answered. Wh…
I don’t know whats going on.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/3 "2004-12-03T15:40:26Z")
[Here’s one explanation](http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/11/09/FirefoxALTTagsAndTooltips.html):
> [@](#):
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> The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to be the job of the TITLE tag.
I presume this also pertains to the TITLE attribute of the TD tags with which it’s generated.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/4 "2004-12-03T15:42:26Z")
Oh hang on a minute, the TITLE tag that’s referring to _is_ the one that is meant to be used.
Just ignore me.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/5 "2004-12-03T15:45:29Z")
It’s a Firefox issue, not a VBulletion one.
I think there might be some sort of extension out there for recognizing alt-tags like IE but the default does not.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/6 "2004-12-04T00:18:56Z")
> [@av8rmike](#):
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> **DooWahDiddy** asked this question before, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=274366), but it was never really answered. Why does the mouse-over preview tooltip show 30+ characters in IE, but only about 10 in Mozilla Firefox?
This does not appear to be the case with Firefox 1.0. I get one line instead of six or seven.
I don’t see why it’s a big problem, though.
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### Author:  [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/7 "2004-12-04T16:35:40Z")
> [@Evil Death](#):
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> This does not appear to be the case with Firefox 1.0. I get one line instead of six or seven.
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> I don’t see why it’s a big problem, though.
I guess I should have counted the number of characters… :rolleyes:
In Firefox I only get one line, or the same thing **VenusProbe** posted. In IE I get 6 or 7 lines, like you said. It isn’t a “big deal”, I just wonder why the discrepancy and if there’s any way to change it.
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-in-firefox/277896/8 "2004-12-04T17:06:48Z")
This extension will allow you to see the full mouseover thread preview using Firefox:
[http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/\_popupalt.html.en](http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_popupalt.html.en)