General "Hovering Delay" on all programs, browsers, etc...

Your Mouse Hover time in the Registry is set to Default, it is just the same as mine. 400
Maybe I am not understanding your questions? If your mouse gets Stuck for a spit second, you may call it a hover, then this is usually an issue with some software you've installed. A Clean Boot will usually fix this issue.
If you have slow internet, your mouse may hover for split second before moving on. Testing your internet speed takes just a few minutes.
If I am misunderstanding, then maybe someone else can chime in?

spunk said:

Your Mouse Hover time in the Registry is set to Default, it is just the same as mine. 400
Maybe I am not understanding your questions?

MouseOver or Mouse Hovering is an action managed by Windows GUI,
from the beginning (W95 if I'm correct)

it happens when the pointer pass over a specific activation point:
in response the system (or the program) will popup a bubble or a square or a window with specific contains that will momentarily cover the underlying contents, but will disappear if you move the pointer away

One typically used and widely known is in W-FileExplorer:
when you pass over a filename or a directory a small square appear offering you some details regarding that item.
The other on the "Classic" start button it make the menu to appear

In my two PCs the "reaction time" is near zero, even if it's set by default 0,400 seconds.
.. even putting that registry value to 0,700 dont change that reaction time.

In browser, if you check the video I linked 4 posts back, its near instantaneous
and the response cover the original page.

What I'm looking if anybody got lucky solving it in a "general way" or "browser specific"

I posted two ways of solving it for "Menu" and "Taskbar"
... but these are not what I'm looking for 'cause are not a problem for me

HiH

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Edwin said:

Changing Mouse Hover Time or Menu Show Delay in Windows will not affect the way a website behaves.

I know....
that's I wrote, and the reason I'm here...
hoping somebody comes up with a brand new idea :-D

up
!

kreemoweet said:

"ui.tooltipDelay" on the about:config page

Thanks!! that was the setting I remembered.... it was located somewhere.. couldn't remember if OS or Browser :-(

I learned a lot about that here:
ui.tooltipDelay - Mozilla | MDN
and here:
google chrome - Forcing browser tooltips to show immediately - Super User

But it seems nobody care about it nowadays !! :-D

(it seems to be deprecated and it was working in Firefox only)



Alain
PS:

PS: still no Idea why the reaction is so fast .... may be somebody forgot somewhere along the lines :

Code:

tooltipShowDelay={0}

(unless it's me, my reactions becoming more and more slower)

Yes ... hovering and tooltips are from '95 - Wikipedia !! mentioning "Chen" > Tweak UI - Wikipedia

Sorry, I was not clear on that:
it's a JS piece of code that was default in one of the version of the JS toolkit.
(having ZERO instead of the correct value "500"- may be an error)

I've found several reference to issues like mine, in people testing their code in 3rd Q 2020

As long as I remember starting to have that general issue myself at that time...
but not being only browser related, I thought I had changed some hidden W10 setting, during some test.
Sure that sudden change was not related to upgrades. I locked W-Upgrades out.
Question was with my big surprise:
why the new PC present the same instantaneous response to hover?

At first I googled for "mouse hover" and got nothing recent enough, the "tooltip" search found more and more results from Devs, but still nothing on general solution.
In any case I'm not alone asking this question over the Net, but we are few and no consistent solution so far.
(lot of older references were solved using TweekUI)

Alain

PS: ... and Chen and its "TweekUI" was a savior at that time...