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fireman0174 · Jun 16, 2012

I frequent an aviation photography website. In order to see the photo's description and other pertinent information I must click the photo which then opens a new page.

What I would like to be able to do is hover the mouse pointer over the photo and have the info displayed in a separate box without clicking the photo.

I'm able to do this on my Windows 7 computer.

How can I configure this on my iMac? Thanks.

chas_m · Jun 17, 2012

It would help if you'd share the name and URL of the website so that we can test this for you ...

(also helpful: what browser are you using on Windows 7? What kind of iMac do you have?)

fireman0174 · Jun 17, 2012

chas_m said:
It would help if you'd share the name and URL of the website so that we can test this for you ...

(also helpful: what browser are you using on Windows 7? What kind of iMac do you have?)

Website is Airliners.net | Airplanes - Aviation - Aircraft- Aircraft Photos & News, but it's all websites with photos.

Browser being used is Firefox for both Windows 7 and iMac 24" with O/S version of 10.6.8

Adric · Jun 17, 2012

It seems to be giving descriptions in the little yellow popup box when I hover the cursor over a photo in both Safari and Firefox on my machine. Are you not seeing it or is that not what you're talking about?

fireman0174 · Jun 17, 2012

Adric said:
It seems to be giving descriptions in the little yellow popup box when I hover the cursor over a photo in both Safari and Firefox on my machine. Are you not seeing it or is that not what you're talking about?

Sounds exactly what I'm looking to do assuming you are referring to the "thumbs" view. (Page with anywhere from 15 to 120 thumbs per page.)

It does it automatically with my Windows 7 laptop from the day I purchased the machine about 8-9 months ago. I remember having to manually configure the mouse in Windows XP in my older computer.

TattooedMac · Jun 17, 2012

I did some digging around and with all the extensions out there i came up with this.
Safari i couldn't find one as yet (will do more digging)
Firefox i loaded the extension but really didn't do anything.
Chrome i loaded a extension and got this.

Now to get this it wasn't a matter of just hovering over. I had to go to the cntexual menu (right click the image) then to image properties . . . . Does that work for you ??

In Safari i got the info box but as soon as i switched to thumbnail page there was nothing..... Ill dig deeper into Safari Extension for you...

Cheers

fireman0174 · Jun 18, 2012

TattooedMac said:
I did some digging around and with all the extensions out there i came up with this.
Safari i couldn't find one as yet (will do more digging)
Firefox i loaded the extension but really didn't do anything.
Chrome i loaded a extension and got this.

Now to get this it wasn't a matter of just hovering over. I had to go to the cntexual menu (right click the image) then to image properties . . . . Does that work for you ??

In Safari i got the info box but as soon as i switched to thumbnail page there was nothing..... Ill dig deeper into Safari Extension for you...

Cheers

Thanks. I've never been able to get the pop up lke you have shown.

TattooedMac · Jun 18, 2012

As in the post, its in Google Chrome. Download it here, then goto there Extensions page and look for Image Properties Context Menu 0.7.5. Install that then when over the image right click and in the contextual menu it will be down the bottom. Click that and there it is. I havnt been able to find a extension that will do as you ask by just hovering over it. Sorry

Cheerss

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