Mouse over preview - blah.

[Motorheader]

Mouse over preview is not a very good feature imho. I have terrible eyes and that stupid box that pops up interferes with what I'm trying to read. Why can't it be an enable/disable option?

Thanks

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I complained about this during the beta. It was removed and now has been reimplemented. Apart from this post I won't bother to express my opinions on the matter, but suffice it to say that very few people agree with you and I.

 

[Ken g6]

Why can't it be an enable/disable option?

Well, there's a script for that. (See instructions in the linked post!)

 

[Terzo]

Mouse over preview is not a very good feature imho. I have terrible eyes and that stupid box that pops up interferes with what I'm trying to read. Why can't it be an enable/disable option?

Thanks

I agree. I just noticed it today, spent half an hour trying to see if there's an option to disable it. Apparently not.

Well, there's a script for that. (See instructions in the linked post!)

Sweet, I'll have to install greasemonkey and this script and see how it goes. Thanks for the link.
*Edit*Worked like a charm.

 

[mb]

1. Take mouse and move cursor from thread title
2. Profit

Sounds simple to me...

 

[coldmeat]

It's not just the title that does it, it's the whole thread list. I like to keep my mouse in the centre of the screen, and having these popups is annoying.

Script worked, thanks.

 

[olds]

You know what I find annoying?
That they forums don't shoot $100 bills into my face whenever I hover over a link. When will this be fixed? It's annoying as HELL!

 

[Terzo]

Man, Ken, thanks for that link. The greasemonkey thread is a treasure trove of customization options. More options are rarely a bad thing; I wish I had found that thread earlier. I'm especially excited by the nested quote option, since doing it manually can be quite tedious.

 

[Legendary]

I'm enjoying it.

 

[Zorkorist]

Please give us the option to turn it off.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

Also, I guess turning off the side bar forum list is never going to become an option (now that ads are in there too?)

Or am I missing the thread discussing it?

I feel sure it would be up towards the top of the list. Maybe the mouse over pop-up boxes are hiding it.

-John

 

[boomerang]

I'm enjoying it.

As am I. It's a great feature IMO. Topic titles are not always the clearest. This feature gives me a preview of what the thread is about. I find myself clicking on fewer threads because of it.

It's a good thing.

 

[sandorski]

You know what I find annoying?
That they forums don't shoot $100 bills into my face whenever I hover over a link. When will this be fixed? It's annoying as HELL!

Indeed. Where's the Script for that?!

 

[moshquerade]

I'm enjoying it.

I like it too!

 

[Vette73]

Please give us the option to turn it off.

-John

:thumbsup:

 

[Turin39789]

Please give us the option to turn it off.

-John

at least two characters

 

[Red Squirrel]

In firefox it was not as annoying but in chrome it is, please, turn it off or give users the option! (nothing will probably get done but at least I'm trying)

 

[MotF Bane]

I really like this feature.

 

[allisolm]

I wish it would only appear when you moused over the title rather than seemingly everywhere I rest my mouse but I find the feature itself to be valuable.

 

[Spacehead]

I wish it would only appear when you moused over the title rather than seemingly everywhere I rest my mouse but I find the feature itself to be valuable.

Yeah, that would be a nice compromise.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If it was just the titles then it would not be that hard. In fact that is about a 5-10 minute change in the html code. Just apply it to the "a" tag instead of the <td> tag.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I was happy when the little previews started working. I utilize that on the other forums I'm a member of and was a little sad when it wasn't working here at first.

 

[Zorkorist]

If it was just the titles then it would not be that hard. In fact that is about a 5-10 minute change in the html code. Just apply it to the "a" tag instead of the <td> tag.

Can they do that to all the pop over things? Just change it to <a>, and then if you hover over the text, you get the preview... but anywhere else, no preview?

I'd be OK with that, cause I just hover somewhere, and not over text, obv, if I am trying to read it.

-John

 

[Red Squirrel]

Can they do that to all the pop over things? Just change it to <a>, and then if you hover over the text, you get the preview... but anywhere else, no preview?

I'd be OK with that, cause I just hover somewhere, and not over text, obv, if I am trying to read it.

-John

Yeah pretty much. It would be so easy to do too. I don't know what it takes ages to get stuff like this done on big forums... No matter how many members you have, a change like this will still be easy to do. Do it in dev, make sure it works, then upload to live, done.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I've created an extension for Chrome (which now officially supports extensions out of the box) to remove this text. Grab the file here.