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In Firefox, I have a small delay, (maybe half a second), before tooltips show up.
In Chrome, there's a similar delay, and a fade-in animation, making it even slower.

For some applications, this delay can become a serious annoyance.


@FF, I tried to look for variables in about:config, but didn't find anything about "title", "tooltips" or "fade".
Glancing at 3 pages of "add-ons" didn't help.

@Chrome : chrome:config fails to display (issue seems common), and chrome:flags didn't reveal anything worthy.
I Browsed the add-ons on marketplace, but found nothing.
Googling didn't help much more.


Does anyone know a trick for that ?
Did I miss an add-on somewhere ?
Any other solution ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Balmipour
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  • Depending on the website and the implementation of the tooltip in question you might not be able to influence the behavior. It might be good to include a screenshot or an example. – Seth Jul 29 '19 at 09:39
  • The precise reason which made me ask is [Innovation](https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=innovation), a web-implemented boardgame on Boardgamearena But there is other circumstances where I'd like or need to disable this kind of animations, the same way I disabled most of Aero quirks on Windows, so generic solutions would be a good thing. _The "game demonstration" beyond my link lets you see the feature in its technical context, better than any screenshot. Looks like it needs to be logged, though._ – Balmipour Jul 29 '19 at 15:55
  • Not really, because it would require me to register in order to see anything. If, what you're talking about, is richer than a simple text popup in a square box (e. g. might be caused by [img alt tag](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img) or [title tag](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_Attributes/title)) you're looking at something more complex and it's unlikely that you will find a general solution. – Seth Jul 30 '19 at 06:28

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Yes, you can do this by making a new value in about:config called ui.tooltipDelay. Check out the docs!

In this example, I've set it to 50ms. You can set it to as low as 1ms if you wish.

about:config screenshot

BoffinBrain
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  • Thanks for the input. Right answer, but didn't help : I guess most tooltips are now, "emulated" using javascript. In my case, all I got is it uses the "Dojo" framework, but I couldn't find which component (or *function* !) I should target to alter the transition. At least, I learnt that some about:config values aren't populated by default (now, I'll just wonder... *why* ? :p) – Balmipour Oct 25 '19 at 13:22
  • Yes, if the website uses a custom JS solution to implement tooltips then there's not much you can do. – BoffinBrain Oct 25 '19 at 21:53