Comments on: Title: I can't see you.

Question: Title: I can't see you.

jacalata — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:41:02 -0800

Why won't firefox display titles on hover (except inside Google Reader)?

I noticed a while ago that I wasn't seeing title attributes on hover. When I added xkcd to my google reader feed, I found that comics viewed within Reader showed the title on hover, but viewing them on their own page doesn't. Today I went through and disabled all my extensions, and I'm still getting the same behaviour. What have I done?

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:43:28 -0800

I have this same issue. I thought it was in the javascript allowance settings (in options), but I toggled things off and on and couldn't get it to work. I have a suspect that it's in there somewhere - some permission, or perhaps in about:config.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:46:10 -0800

But titles on hover aren't anything to do with javascript, they're a html attribute.

By: MadamM

MadamM — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:51:03 -0800

I think it's something about titles not being supposed to display on hover, technically. Mozilla, being all standards-friendly, doesn't have this feature/bug, unlike IE. I use the Popup ALT attribute extension to get around this. It's a little wonky sometimes but it does the job.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:02:12 -0800

That's for the Alt attribute, which is meant to show if the image itself doesn't. The Title attribute is meant to display on hover, and is supported natively by firefox.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:14:31 -0800

Go to about:config and type toolbar_tips. The attribute browser.chrome.toolbar_tips should be set to true. If it does not exist, create it as a boolean and set it to true.

If it does exist, and is true, then something else is going on. Try creating a new profile using the profile manager and see if it behaves the same way.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:06:31 -0800

Thanks, that fixed it! I guess it was changed by an extension and didn't change back when I removed them.

By: cashman

cashman — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:56:15 -0800

Thank you jacalata and dhartung. Worked for me too.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:47:42 -0800

BTW, the reason you might have added an extension for this is that Firefox cuts off the longer xkcd titles, and there is an extension to show the whole thing. I assume it would turn off this setting.