# Rollovers in Netscape: why not?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825
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**Created:** [March 27, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825 "2004-03-27T23:35:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Boppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boppy)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/1 "2004-03-27T23:35:08Z")
Is it ever likely that we non-IE users can mousover thread titles to see the contents before we decide whether or not to open the thread?
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/2 "2004-03-28T01:40:32Z")
I don’t know about Netscape, but Mozilla Firefox ([www.mozilla.org/products/firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox)), does have the mouseover capabilities. Since AOL has basically discontinued Netscape, I highly recommend you change over to Firefox (it also comes with a Google toolbar, great pop-up blocking, and easy to use other features!)
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/3 "2004-03-28T06:35:04Z")
I use Netscape 7.0, and the mouseover previews work just fine for me.
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### Author:  [@Boppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boppy)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/4 "2004-03-28T07:27:09Z")
Thanks Smeg and Mnen - I’ve downloaded Firefox for a look, and will post a question on the Netscape NG because I’m surprised if one person can get mouseovers, everyone can’t.
Cheers,
Jo
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### Author:  [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/5 "2004-03-28T20:43:57Z")
My understanding is Gecko devs (the rendering engine Firefox and Mozilla is based on) decided not to popup alt attributes because it’s no standards compliant HTML. The proper popup text attribute accourding to the W3C is, title, I think. Anyway it does not matter.
Someone wrote a Firefox extension that makes alt text popup. I use it.
[http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#popupalt](http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#popupalt)
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### Author:  [@Draknek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draknek)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/6 "2004-03-28T21:42:31Z")
Actually, the rollovers used here _do_ use the title attribute. So it should work in Netscape.
Netscape/Mozilla still don’t display the alt attribute as a popup (unless you have the extension mentioned by **netscape 6** )
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### Author:  [@Boppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boppy)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rollovers-in-netscape-why-not/236825/7 "2004-03-28T23:16:04Z")
A kind soul over at the Netscape newsgroup told me just to turn on tool tips in Preferences.
Cheers,
Jo