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Mouse over preview - blah.

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Motorheader

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

Ken g6 said:
Well, there's a script for that. (See instructions in the linked post!)
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Sweet, I'll have to install greasemonkey and this script and see how it goes. Thanks for the link.
*Edit*Worked like a charm.
 
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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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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
 
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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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
RedSquirrel said:
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.
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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
 
Zorkorist said:
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
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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.
 
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