Open Mount Fuji or Open Old Faithful

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Open Mount Fuji or Open Old Faithful

Occasionally when I hover on a spot in Safari 5.0.5 , a small text box opens up. Its light yellow in background and has black letters that say: "Open Mount Fuji". Sometimes the same thing happens, only it says: "Open Old Faithful". The type is about 6 points and the message box is only large enough to hold the phrase. It hovers open for about 3/4 of second and fades away. It happened just now while I was setting up this message.

What Gives?

iMac 20", Mac OS X (10.6.4), Long Live the Mac!

Posted on Aug 21, 2011 2:53 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 21, 2011 3:55 PM in response to Boris the Loud Listener

Those are tooltips.

You can put a stop to that using Terminal.

/Applications/Utilities

http://www.macworld.com/article/55202/2007/02/termtooltips.html

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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Aug 21, 2011 4:07 PM in response to Boris the Loud Listener

Do you always get those same messages on any web page?

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Answer 3

Aug 22, 2011 2:20 PM in response to Linc Davis

"Always" is the wrong word, but fairly often. Linc Davis(above) mentioned tool tips. I'm not familiar with that, but will check Safari and System Preferences for enable/disable Tool Tips. They come up on nearly any web site.

Thanks

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Answer 4

CT

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Aug 22, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Boris the Loud Listener

The tooltips are system wide, more or less. You may not want to eliminate them completely. I find them handy sometimes. To be sure, sometimes they act up a bit, but not as much as they used to, and - for me - not in the annoying way you describe. I wonder if just clearing Safari's history, or maybe clearing the mysterious "website data" will eliminate the Scenic Mountain Tooltips. ( Via the Reset Safari command in the Safari menu.)

charlie

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Answer 5

Aug 23, 2011 7:12 PM in response to CT

Thank you CT. I restarted, plus "Reset Safari" from underneath of the SAFARI pull-down menu. No further sign of those pesky varmints. I don't know what "tool tips" are - so I looked around a while.

It seems they are not so popular, but if anybody else come behind us on this thread, this link from a Mac users and tips magazine helps explain the darn things.

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!

<http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/disable-tooltips-safari-firefox.php>

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Answer 6

Aug 23, 2011 7:12 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks Carolyn, but I just absolutey never put in terminal commands by rote if I don't understand them. And, I don't "understand" any of them - at all. Conceptually, yes. Its to pass parameters to a program. One can control dwell time, font size and enable/disable for tooltips. So I gather from looking at some user tip magazines.

Anyway, a reboot and a reset on Safari seems to have cleared things up. "Open Mount Fuji" or: "New York"? What the heck are they talking about anyway?

Thanks for the answer and the care!

BL

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Answer 7

CT

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Aug 23, 2011 7:37 PM in response to Boris the Loud Listener

Great!

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