Problems with mouseover text

[carbonel]

In the last couple of days, I've noticed that my mouseover text -- the kind that every xkcd comic has, for example -- is only showing for a fraction of a second, which isn't long enough for me to read it.

I'm seeing the same thing -- I assume for the same reason -- when I mouse over an emoji to see what it's supposed to be.

Any idea what's causing it, and if there's any way to fix it?

Comments

[graydon]

At least in the case of XKCD, the mouseover text is in the title attribute of the HTML image element (<img>). So if it's not behaving it's nigh-certainly a browser problem.

Sometimes restarting the browser will help; sometimes updating the browser will help. (Every now and again an automatic update happens where things don't work properly until the browser as a program gets restarted. You've got old-version code in memory trying to use new-version libraries and it doesn't quite function correctly.)

No help here

[lsanderson]

But you might want to disclose which browser and what OS.