Forum Changed? No "Hover over thread" function any more?

haaammit · 23 Oct 2021 at 12:02

Hi - don't know if it's something I've changed or something on the forum but I used to be able to hover over a post and I'd get a little pop-up showing a brief part of the OP. Also, when I hovered over my username the drop down menu popped up. Now I have to click on it.

Is it one of my settings or forum settings or am I being particularly dense this morning lol

IceBear · 23 Oct 2021 at 12:03

Mine's working fine.

cainer · 23 Oct 2021 at 12:12

working fine here as well for hovering over thread titles, no drop down list on the username though, i've had to click on it for as long as i can remember

haaammit · 23 Oct 2021 at 13:41

How odd. It no longer works with Firefox or Edge but does work on TOR: Pics below. WTF have I changed/what do I search for to turn it back on? Bloody thing!

Working fine on TOR:

Not working on Firefox:

Nor Edge:

Werewolf · 23 Oct 2021 at 13:43

It works in Chrome which suggest FF and Edge may be doing something different?

[edit]
Works in edge for me as well.

haaammit · 23 Oct 2021 at 13:52

Werewolf said:
It works in Chrome which suggest FF and Edge may be doing something different?

[edit]
Works in edge for me as well.

Literally just downloaded Chrome to see if that works, and nothing:

Werewolf · 23 Oct 2021 at 13:55

What OS are you using?

It seems odd that you're getting a different result to others using the same browers.

AtaRo · 23 Oct 2021 at 13:57

Works fine, Firefox 93 here.

haaammit · 23 Oct 2021 at 14:02

Using Windows 10 Pro 21H1 no updates outstanding
Doesn't work on:
Firefox 93.0
Edge Version 95.0.1020.30
Chrome was whatever is the latest as downloaded for testing

Does work on:
TOR 10.5.8

Edit: Doesn't make any difference if logged in or not either. Also doesn't work on other forums (but does on TOR)
Few add-ons with FF so also started in safemode to check - no difference. Edge is out of the box, as was chrome and TOR

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Oct 2021 at 17:43

Works fine in edge here - I'm using a custom theme though.

Turned off my custom theme and it works in Edge latest version.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

drakulton · 23 Oct 2021 at 17:50

Get a new PC.

Pawnless Endgame · 23 Oct 2021 at 17:55

haaammit said:
How odd. It no longer works with Firefox or Edge but does work on TOR: Pics below. WTF have I changed/what do I search for to turn it back on? Bloody thing!

Working fine for me in Firefox 93.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Oct 2021 at 18:00

Pawnless Endgame said:
Working fine for me in Firefox 93.

Your theme is broken.

Malevolence · 23 Oct 2021 at 18:06

Working fine here on W10 and Chrome (both fully updated).

Bouton Aide said:
Your theme is broken.

Pretty sure Pawnless has really bad impaired vision in his remaining eye, so it's probably a theme to aid with that.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Oct 2021 at 18:07

Malevolence said:
Pretty sure Pawnless has impaired eyesight in his remaining eye, so it's probably a theme to aid with his vision.

I meant under the text replies/views/messages on the right hand side and under the replies/views on right hand side.

Not the fact of it's colour or layout.

haaammit · 23 Oct 2021 at 19:26

Wow, ok, all sorted, although it's been a bit of a head-scratcher to say the least.

Turns out the 5" HDMI monitor I'd bought to act as a display panel is also a touchscreen (which I knew, but didn't think would be an issue. Ha. Ha ha hah.), and powering it via a USB cable was causing some unwanted side-effects, one of which was stopping the hover/preview thing from working.

Unplugged the USB cable to it and all is working fine. Just need a way to get power to the screen without using one of the USB sockets, maybe a power only lead would work, if there is such a thing, Odd how it didn't affect TOR though, but problem finally solved!

chaparral · 23 Oct 2021 at 19:47

Working fine on the windows 11 edge browser

Ice Tea · 23 Oct 2021 at 23:35

Could it be a Ad blocker?

jaybee · 24 Oct 2021 at 09:21

Ice Tea said:
Could it be a Ad blocker?

I've missed this feature for so long and assumed it had just been turned off and/or my work proxy was interfering. Now I'm thinking it may be my ad blocker actually. Will investigate later.