turn off mouseovers?

TuckerdogAVL

TuckerdogAVL

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I guess that is what they are: Mouseovers? When you're on a website and your pointer lands on a line of type or graphic or image for more than a few seconds and you get the http:// information? Sometimes there is no place to put the pointer w/o opening something! Is there anyway to turn this off? Doesn't matter if I'm in Safari or Firefox, always happens. I've searched and searched help, view, system prefs, prefs, and develop, but I have no idea what snippet editors, site specific hacks and consoles are, so I tried each Hide/Show to no avail. And if it can't be turned off, any suggestions on how to read the information BEHIND the popped up mouseover when its about fiftey words long? There have been times I can't even click on the link because the mouseover is in the way!!!!
 
Those are built into the web page by the developer. Even if you turn off Java scripts and Java the little pop ups still happens. So contact the developer.:confused:
 
Guess there isn't anything that can be done. There are times that I can't even get to the link because of the popup. I try to read the line quickly to see whether it's something I'm really interested in, and often, just give up. Very annoying. "Contacting the developer" won't help as it is on every page of every website that I go to. But thanks for the insight. :-)
 
If I understand what you mean, it's not coded into the web page exactly; it's done by the browser. Those are tooltips. Most modern browsers display an image's "alt" tag in tooltips when you leave the mouse over it. It bugs me, too. The alt tag was originally made to display text when images were not loaded. This behavior in browsers is relatively new.

I've gotten into the habit of resting my mouse outside of the content of the page. The menu bar is an easy, harmless target.
 
I've been putting the mouse pointer (hand/finger) over the earlier contributor's Avatars, and when pressing the Ctrl or Option key, the text box (not quite a popup I concede) disappears. The key press didn't work with the community live journal link example.

You can also bypass the popup issue by placing the pointer in the scrolling elevator.

There's another MacOS forum that uses popup dialogue boxes so badly that text entries in replies are covered over. One has to move the mouse pointer away, making text insertion at the I-beam a trifle difficult.
 
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