# Tooltips in Firefox are truncated
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 28, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470 "2008-02-28T03:21:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/1 "2008-02-28T03:21:22Z")
Firefox only shows about 80 characters for the tooltip preview. For example, the first sticky post “Have a Computer question?..” (yeah, I know there’s some irony in using that example) shows a tooltip of “Over the past few months we have received a spate of computer related questions in GQ”
In IE I see two whole paragraphs.
I couldn’t seem to find where that setting is, any help would be appreciated!
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/2 "2008-02-28T03:24:25Z")
You need the [Long Titles](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715) extension.
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### Author:  [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/3 "2008-02-28T06:27:02Z")
Thanks Q.E.D. - that worked. 🙂
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/4 "2008-02-28T07:00:20Z")
If this is a very well known issue for Firefox (which it seems to be,) why hasn’t it been fixed yet? Is it merely that most webpages are written incorrectly, so they work with IE, but not with other browsers (which I hear is a common problem)?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/5 "2008-02-28T08:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=bouv]
If this is a very well known issue for Firefox (which it seems to be,) why hasn’t it been fixed yet?
[/QUOTE]
Probably because it’s not a critical problem, so it’s low on the priority list.
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tooltips-in-firefox-are-truncated/439470/6 "2008-02-28T08:45:31Z")
In fact, it is (supposedly – I haven’t installed it myself) fixed in FireFox 3.0, which is now in Alpha. From the [Long Titles Extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715) page posted by QED:
> [@](#):
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> Note: both bugs are fixed in Firefox 3.0alpha4 and SeaMonkey 1.1beta. Long Titles isn’t required anymore on those platforms.