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Annoying description pop-up when hovering in Microsoft Office

poodlebone
poodlebone
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When working from home I have to do a lot of things in the web based version of Microsoft Office. I am using Firefox 89.0.2 and Windows 10. In OneDrive where I have a lot of documents, any item the cursor stops on for even a fraction of a second causes a small pop-up description of the item. It's driving me crazy and slowing me down, preventing me from immediately clicking on the item I actually want. I thought I saw a solution but it was for an older version of both Firefox and Windows, and my settings already showed that solution was active.

When working from home I have to do a lot of things in the web based version of Microsoft Office. I am using Firefox 89.0.2 and Windows 10. In OneDrive where I have a lot of documents, any item the cursor stops on for even a fraction of a second causes a small pop-up description of the item. It's driving me crazy and slowing me down, preventing me from immediately clicking on the item I actually want. I thought I saw a solution but it was for an older version of both Firefox and Windows, and my settings already showed that solution was active.

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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Have you tried pressing the <Esc> key?

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You've probably noticed that Firefox will display a tooltip if you hover the mouse pointer of an item with a title attribute. For example, on the button bar above this form. But there is a 1-2 second delay and the tooltip has a predictable boring appearance. Are the ones on OneDrive the same, or do they look different?