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Poster:	Bene Scytale	Date:	Mar 8, 2024 9:24am
Forum:	general	Subject:	Disable mouse hover popup

Hello,

When I do a search from PC, and then the mouse hovers over an item, even if I'm moving the mouse elsewhere, an information window, very large, pops up giving a description of the item.

For most other sites where this is a feature, there is a slight delay, so that simply moving the mouse across the screen doesn't cause a window to pop up, you actually have to pause over the item. Usually the window is significantly smaller as well.

Here, it happens instantly, and more often than not, the window gets directly in the way of something else I'm trying to look at, and I have to spend a lot of time moving the mouse off the item list to get the menu to disappear (repeatedly, if I'm scrolling, looking for a specific item in a long list.

It's made using Internet Archive an incredibly frustrating experience for me, and I'm wondering if there is some way of disabling that hover-popup altogether. I've gotten to the point where I'll check even the horror that is Academia.edu's clunky interface for an item, or anywhere else before here, solely because of the hover-popups making Internet Archive such a nightmare to navigate.

I don't see other complaints about this issue, so I'm assuming it's particular to me, but I have to try two or three times to even get the mouse over the item I WANT to click on (whether in list or Icon form) because the popup for something else will superimpose itself because I accidentally dragged the mouse across it. Which is unavoidable.

Thanks. This used to be my go-to site, and I just figured that after a while they'd disable or shrink those popups because they're such an inconvenience, but If anything....they seem to have gotten bigger since last time I was here, or maybe I just dread them so much it seems that way. But an unnavigable site is one that is no longer a go-to site.

I appreciate trying to give users information before actually clicking and loading a page, but either program in a slight pause, or create some sort of gutter around the listings so that one can scroll without the mouse going over an icon or listing, or else give the user the ability to disable that please?

Thank you.