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Youtube not showing full video title when hovering if tab is not focused

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While hovering over a Youtube video it shows the full video title as "hover text" if the tab is focused. However, if something else, even another Firefox window is focused hovering no longer shows anything. Is there some kind of setting to change that? I figured it could be browser and Youtube specific because Chrome shows it on Youtube even when not focused, but neither browser shows it on Google search for example, but I'm not sure.

While hovering over a Youtube video it shows the full video title as "hover text" if the tab is focused. However, if something else, even another Firefox window is focused hovering no longer shows anything. Is there some kind of setting to change that? I figured it could be browser and Youtube specific because Chrome shows it on Youtube even when not focused, but neither browser shows it on Google search for example, but I'm not sure.

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See:

  • 1861427 - tooltips no longer appear on hover when the other application is focused

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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In version 123 and later, you can enable experimental tab card previews which appear for inactive windows by changing browser.tabs.cardPreview.enabled to true in about:config.

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Note that the cardPreview prefs have been renamed to hoverPreview in Nightly 128.

  • browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled
  • browser.tabs.hoverPreview.showThumbnails