> But your site makes the tip appear almost immediately. The standard tip takes 2 seconds on FF.
2 seconds? Do you have proof of this? The default time for Windows tooltips is 400 ms and is a setting in the registry. It affects all Windows-based apps including the Start Menu, Explorer, Internet Explorer, etc. For FireFox to have a different setting, I guess they don't use the Windows-based tooltips but instead their own application-specific ones? Our tooltips used to be 250 ms and we just upped it to 500 ms, to make it on par with the Windows default.
I don't really know how to prove it, but I put a digital clock next to the screen. But human reaction time is .35 to .85 seconds, so I can't get it any closer. I am seeing three different times on automatic displays on these pages:
- A period too short to measure on the dropdown menus.
- about half a second on the DaniWeb tooltips.
- About 1.5 seconds on the Windows screen tips (e.g. on the DaniWeb link in the upper left corner).
Another difference is that the Daniweb tooltip takes time (about 1/2 second) to completely appear.
I want you to imagine the following:
A website loads a full screen if information. Then a tooltip appears, and immediately the rest of the screen clears. Then the information loads again. And every time a tooltip appears or disappears, this same thing happens again.
I know the actual screen doesn't do that, but that is what happens to the text image in my visual cortex.
> When I post, the reply that the page has been posted never comes. The loading-whizzer keeps spinning, until I get a "The host is not responding" error. So I don't know if the post has gone through. So I post it again (If I check first, I lose the post text from the posting window), and sometimes end up with two posts.
This used to happen to me every so often (like once a week). The post ALWAYS went through, so I would just refresh the page and the post would show up. If you're afraid it won't, just copy your post to the clipboard before refreshing. This isn't something that happens quite often though, right?
In my case, the post went through about 3/4 of the time. It is now happening about once a week. It seems to coincide with the page delays because an ad loads late.
> Because of my low-level dyslexia, I use the mouse pointer to follow my reading, so I don't lose my place or repeat lines. The tips prevent that, by covering the text I'm trying to read. That share box does the same thing in the original post of each topic.
Is it possible for you to move your mouse pointer either over or directly below the line you're trying to follow? The tooltips never cover up any of the line that is initiating them.
I'm doing something like that, but it takes longer.
> I have since determined that the scroll problem, the disappearing cursor, and the 100% CPU are the same thing - the ad-hog stealing cycles.
I'm not sure why you're experiencing these, but since they're ad-related, this has nothing at all to do with whether JavaScript features are enabled or disabled, as the ads load the same either way.
Originally you said the rounded corners script was causing the scroll and disappearing insertion point troubles, and disabling JavaScript cured that. Now I think they are ad-related. They seem to come and go with the activity of the various ads.
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But the start menu popup speed and tooltip speed are two different settings. 
