[X4U] Annoying popup links in Mail & Safari

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 5/28/07 11:50 AM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 05/26/07, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 5/26/07 12:18 PM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry for not being clear enough. AFAICT, the default tooltips setting in
>>> Safari is ON even if you don't get anything back for
>>> WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips
>>> in the plist. On my machine w/10.4.9, the tooltips are active in Safari even
>>> though there's no entry for WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips in the plist. Simple
>>> test is to quit Safari, move the current plist to the Desktop, relaunch
>>> Safari, and see if the tooltips work.
>> 
>> Sorry to disagree, but the tooltips do not show for me even after using the
>> default Safari plist. I left the cursor hovered over links for 30+ seconds
>> and not once did I see a tooltip. Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3)
> 
> Then, Daly Jessup chimed in iwith:
>> 
>> Okay, I tried this. I quit Safari, moved its prefs to the Desktop,
>> and relaunched it. I got no tooltips. I quit Safari again and ran:
>> defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips 1
>> in Terminal.  Started Safari, and had tooltips.
>> I looked for tooltips in Safari on three other Macs where this
>> setting has never been adjusted, and none of them have tooltips.
>> It seems to me that the default must actually be for tooltips to be OFF.
> 
> Very interesting. Running Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3) w/10.4.9 and with this
> in Terminal:
> 
> defaults read com.apple.safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips
> 
> I get back:
> 2007-05-28 11:37:57.258 defaults[1538]
> The domain/default pair of (com.apple.safari, WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips) does
> not exist
> 
> However, hovering the cursor over the URL window and bookmark bar entries, the
> tooltips pop up with the URLs.

Well, there's the problem right there. You're talking about the Safari
toolbar and I'm talking about URLs on web pages loaded in the Safari window
(which I thought was what the original post was about since Mail was
included in the discussion). Yes, I get the tooltips on the various Safari
toolbar items. But that is not what was discussed in the hint at
macosxhints.com and is not what is controlled by the
WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips preference. They are completely separate things.

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves