# Transitioning-to-Firefox question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915 "2009-05-19T00:47:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/1 "2009-05-19T00:47:35Z")
I’ve been using Firefox Portable on my flash drive for a while now, and I’m finally getting around to making it my default browser at home as well.
I guess the biggest adjustment I’m having to it is that the address bar pull-down box does not show me the last addresses I’ve typed in but instead my bookmarks. Is there a way to make this work more like IE? I already have a bookmark list, I don’t need my address box to show it to me, too.
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### Author:  [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/2 "2009-05-19T01:09:06Z")
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/3 "2009-05-19T16:53:14Z")
Thanks, **x-ray vision**!
If y’all will indulge a couple more “why isn’t Firefox more like IE questions,” I have two:
In IE, on some sites that have videos, I can hover the mouse over the video preview still and get a pop up with the title. Firefox doesn’t seem to do this. Is there a way to make it do so?
In IE, for the most part when I follow a link on one site, go to a new site, and then go back to the original site, the link I followed is now a different color. Firefox doesn’t seem to do this, either. Is there a way?
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/4 "2009-05-19T17:05:56Z")
Am I to take this to mean that you are using Firefox Portable at home as opposed to plain old Firefox?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/5 "2009-05-19T17:08:01Z")
No, sorry. Plain old Firefox at home. Portable is just at work so I can keep my bookmarks and tabs with me.
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### Author:  [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/6 "2009-05-19T17:31:36Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> In IE, on some sites that have videos, I can hover the mouse over the video preview still and get a pop up with the title. Firefox doesn’t seem to do this. Is there a way to make it do so?
If I’m interpreting this correctly, I think this is a bug in IE.
See, here’s the thing. The markup to make an image is the following: \
The src attribute tells the browser where to find the image, the title attribute is the title of the image, and the alt attribute is what to display if, for some reason, the browser can’t load the image. The src and alt attributes are required; the title attribute is optional.
Now, the problem is, the W3C HTML spec says that only title attributes should appear in a tooltip. The alt attribute should _never_ appear in a tooltip. Internet Explorer (at least, the ancient version of IE6 that I just fired up to test this) ignores this and displays the alt attribute in a tooltip if the title attribute is not present; Firefox follows the spec and doesn’t display a tooltip at all. For all intents and purposes, the lack of a tooltip is, either bug or feature, the web developer’s fault: If they want images to present tooltips, they should put a title attribute in.
If you prefer the IE6 way of doing this, there is an extension out there: [Popup ALT Attribute – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1933) I haven’t tested it, so I can’t vouch for if it works or not, but it’s on the official Mozilla addons site, so it’s at least malware-free. Try it out, maybe it’ll work for you.
> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> In IE, for the most part when I follow a link on one site, go to a new site, and then go back to the original site, the link I followed is now a different color. Firefox doesn’t seem to do this, either. Is there a way?
Firefox does this fine for me. Check under Tools \> Options \> Content \> Colors, and make sure the colors for unvisited links and visited links are different.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transitioning-to-firefox-question/496915/7 "2009-05-19T17:45:15Z")
> [@BorgHunter](#):
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> Firefox does this fine for me. Check under Tools \> Options \> Content \> Colors, and make sure the colors for unvisited links and visited links are different.
Thanks, I’ll check that at home. I’ll also make sure that the “Allow pages to choose their own colors” option isn’t part of the problem.
I’ll also try that add-on.