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Re:The future Firefox UI by mitchty on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:28PM (#2833359)
Personally I just hover to see where a link goes at times, but chrome's method of showing the link at the bottom after N milliseconds is more than sufficient. It doesn't need to permanently take up pixels otherwise.
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Re:The future Firefox UI by kstenerud on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:41PM (#2833428)
Except that chrome's version obscures the navigation links in a lot of websites, which means you have to be quick to point and click in order to be able to navigate before the popup info tooltip blocks your click.
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Re:The future Firefox UI by sp332 on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:51PM (#2833467)
That doesn't happen (anymore?), because the popup will move out of the way of your cursor if you get close.
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Re:The future Firefox UI by kstenerud on Monday August 01, 2011 @03:29PM (#2833967)
It happens to me all the time when I use Review Board on a big commit (which spans multiple pages). Just had it happen now on the latest Chrome.

I have to move the mouse around and play dodge-the-tooltip and hope I get lucky.

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Re:The future Firefox UI by sp332 on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:33PM (#2833388)
Firefox does the same, now. It's almost like Chrome's but it doesn't expand to show the "middle" of a really long link after a second.
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