Safari mouseover info-windows problems

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Howardsweb Author

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Safari mouseover info-windows problems

Hi all, [Safari 5.05 and latest MacOSX in iMac.]

I am becoming more and more frustrated with a few things on my Safari.

The latest irritation is: mouseovers, where a small window with additional information.

pops up next to the cursor. Such as the sites below.

For me, when I mouseover the link or click.. the window opens up so far down the page

that if I mouseover any link that is about half way down the page, the

window is out of view ...

http://tvguide.co.uk/ (mouseover any of the program names)

Also with this site (http://www.teleread.com/ ) if I visit an article

and want to post, I click on the Guest button and I can detect that a

little window opens but it is down out of sight ... and unusable...

This is happening in a lot of places.

What is going on :(((

Howard

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 4, 2011 9:30 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 4, 2011 10:44 AM in response to Howardsweb

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4) <-- your profile ??

No problem here on Safari 5.0.5 / v10.6.8 with that site.

If you have any Extensions installed, Safari / Preferences, turn that off, quit then relaunch Safari. Try the tvguide uk site.

Also, back to Safari / Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect: Enable plug ins.

Quit then relaunch Safari. If that made a difference, then try troubleshooting.

Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

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Howardsweb Author

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Jul 4, 2011 3:24 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Tks for your reply Carolyn,

SOLVED ... after getting suggestions via usenet and other fora...

In my Safari, use a custom CSS stylesheet because I can't read the really small text

on my big iMac.

The Style sheet is:

body {

zoom: 135%;

}

That's all !

But when I cancel it in Safari preferences and go back to 'none selected'..... All of the mouseover problems disappear !

I find it strange never mind a bloody nuisance .. because if I now go to

a problem page and zoom in with Command+ it has NO EFFECT on the

mouseovers. They work fine.

I say a nuisance because i loved my 135% zoom - I didn't have to command+ on every bloody page I visited .. 😟

Why does the 135% zoom in the stylesheet screw everything up so much ??

Howard

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Answer 3

Jul 4, 2011 5:18 PM in response to Howardsweb

Glad you resolved the problem!

As for the zoom.

"b noir" might have a solution for your here. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3095031?tstart=0

Perhaps the "All Pages Zoom" Extension will help without hindering style sheets.

You can access the Safari Extensions Gallery from your Apple menu.

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Answer 4

Howardsweb Author

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Jul 4, 2011 6:21 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Tks Carolyn,

The" All Pages Zoom" extension produces the same problem and renders all of those mouseovers useless in the same way as the stylehseet.

Why does this happen ?

Howard

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