# Strange Mouseover Behaviour **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051 "2006-11-28T10:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/1 "2006-11-28T10:28:27Z")
Just curious. This is a recent occurrence. On most occasions when I float the mouse over a thread title the first few lines of the OP appear, immediately fade for an instant and then reappear and remain visible for a few seconds as normal. This doesn’t happen every time. Furthermore, some stickies don’t show anything from a mouseover at all. Has anyone else experienced this novel behaviour? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/2 "2006-11-28T10:56:12Z")
I experience this, quite regularly, but only ever on Firefox. It’s something to do with having used the back button, and a link being highlighted or something. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/3 "2006-11-28T11:05:23Z")
Interesting. For my sins, I use AOL. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/4 "2006-11-28T11:09:26Z")
Christ! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/5 "2006-11-28T11:17:49Z")
I know it has a poor reputation but I’ve never, ever had a problem with it. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/6 "2006-11-28T13:56:20Z")
I’ve noticed this, too. Not just on the SDMB but on another message board I go to. It only started happening when I “upgraded” to IE7. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/7 "2006-11-28T14:16:43Z")
It’s still useless to me, it goes off so fast. Is that in the browser or the script, how long it lasts? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/8 "2006-11-28T14:38:47Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] I’ve noticed this, too. Not just on the SDMB but on another message board I go to. It only started happening when I “upgraded” to IE7. [/QUOTE] So have I. I think that’s the answer. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/9 "2006-11-28T15:22:25Z")
I get it as well with the upgrade to IE7. It doesn’t happen the first time I mouse over a title, only when a return to a title that had previously popped up. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/10 "2006-11-29T17:39:15Z")
Not sure about the immediate flicker, but if you slowly move the mouse around over the link the preview will stay on the screen. (It’s almost dirty, like you’re stroking/caressing the thread title.) Also, older threads don’t have mouse-over preview. That’s the surest way to tell if somebody bumped a zombie thread. Several of the stickies are very old. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-mouseover-behaviour/382051/11 "2006-11-29T23:12:03Z")
Happens frequently with Firefox, so I can’t blame IE for this one.