Gmail’s Hover Box
I hate Gmail’s new hover box with a passion. I am one who likes to hover my mouse over the text I’m reading, such as the sender and subject of a message recently recieved. However, when I do this on gmail, a big, ugly box appears right over the test I’m trying to read, ruining the whole experience.
The addition of chat I could also care less about, but at least it can be minimized down to about a 100×30 pixel sub-window on the left side of my screen. The boxes, however, are nasty and don’t seem to go away.
What do the rest of you think?
February 12th, 2006 at 02:15:57 pm
The integrated chat stuff hasn’t been rolled out to my account yet, but I did happen to see it in action on one of my co-workers’ computers.
I would be really surprised if they didn’t give you the option of opting-out of that hover-box, or whatever it is.
I’m guessing you tried that, though?
February 13th, 2006 at 01:26:19 am
I use https so I don’t see any of the chat stuff. I’d love to try it.
I haven’t noticed any of the pops on mouseovers, but Gmail Is Not Evil, We All Know That, so try emailing suggestions@gmail.com (or something, I made that up) with your angst and see if they’ll fix that issue. It’s definetly not user-friendly.
February 13th, 2006 at 09:46:06 am
Problem solved: at the bottom of the page, appears the following:
Clicking on “Standard without chat” makes the stupid hover boxes go away. I don’t think those links were there two days ago, but that has obviously been resolved.