topic Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled? in Selling

speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:59:53 GMT

I don't know if the speech balloons (when mousing-over a topic) are new, or if I have only just noticed

but was hoping there was a way to disable them. Does anybody know? Thanks in advance!

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

imastawka — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:09:22 GMT

They disappeared when lithium took over the boards.

It's taken 12 months to get them back.

I like 'em. You don't have to waste time opening a thread.

You can see what it's about straight away

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:16:34 GMT

I am not asking if anyone likes them - I am asking if anyone knows how to disable them. Thankyou.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

5kazam — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:17:08 GMT

Each to his own. I find them totally annoying. Is there an 'off' switch?

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:23:29 GMT

OK. When I read your question, I had a look in the settings.

under my settings, preferences, display

I have ticked display menus dynamically with mouse over, then save changes

my bubbles have now gone, on an iPad using Chrome.

no idea if that will work for anyone else...or why it should have worked...because to me it shouldn't, but changed it back and have bubbles again.

I have a sneaking suspicion, that is a bug and won't work for everyone

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:24:39 GMT

@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
OK. When I read your question, I had a look in the settings.

under my settings, preferences, display

I have ticked display menus dynamically with mouse over, then save changes

my bubbles have now gone, on an iPad using Chrome.

no idea if that will work for anyone else...or why it should have worked...because to me it shouldn't, but changed it back and have bubbles again.

I have a sneaking suspicion, that is a bug and won't work for everyone

Thanks - do you mean your device settings or under 'my ebay' somewhere?

I am on a normal PC (laptop - windows)

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:25:09 GMT

The Lithium settings. Same row as your ID, next to sign out for the boards. Top left.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

5kazam — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:26:36 GMT

Me too! I couldn't work out how to disable them.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

imastawka — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:27:50 GMT

@chezzy wrote:
I am not asking if anyone likes them - I am asking if anyone knows how to disable them. Thankyou.

Guess I should have used the speech bubble and not opened the thread

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:31:16 GMT

@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
The Lithium settings. Same row as your ID, next to sign out for the boards. Top left.

Thanks - found it but it hasn't made any difference (mine was unticked anyway - I tried ticking and then unticking etc) 😞

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

cq_tech — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:35:40 GMT

Unticking that option made no difference here either. Looks like it can't be disabled.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

5kazam — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:37:14 GMT

No difference for me either. Guess I'll just have to put up with another annoyance from eBay. Phooey!!! As if there weren't enough already.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:39:44 GMT

hmmmm

wonder why it makes a difference for me? Shame it isn't a proper fix. Worth a try anyway.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:41:02 GMT

@5kazam wrote:
No difference for me either. Guess I'll just have to put up with another annoyance from eBay. Phooey!!! As if there weren't enough already.

Between that...and Turbo Lister not working properly...I think I will cave and go watch some telly tonight!

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

cq_tech — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:42:15 GMT

To be honest, I don't really mind either way. It is mildly useful, although eBay could have made the bubble a bit more attractive.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

chezzy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:45:53 GMT

@cq_tech wrote:
To be honest, I don't really mind either way. It is mildly useful, although eBay could have made the bubble a bit more attractive.

Reminds me of ca 1980s-early 90s clip art. I prefer a no-frills (or less frills) ebay experience without bubble/balloons trying to leap frog over each other

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:46:20 GMT

The bubbles might carry ads soon...with pretty colours...

or am I just being a bit cynical?

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:46:44 GMT

@chezzy wrote:
@5kazam wrote:
No difference for me either. Guess I'll just have to put up with another annoyance from eBay. Phooey!!! As if there weren't enough already.
Between that...and Turbo Lister not working properly...I think I will cave and go watch some telly tonight!

Not sure where you are, but in my region, there is absolutely nothing on TV tonight unless you want to watch sports or kids movies. For so long they kept telling us how much more we'd have to watch with the 15 channels and now there seems to be less!!

I am finding those balloons extremely annoying. I was going to ask how to turn them off but someone beat me to it. So far I haven't found a way on windows/chrome.

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

thecatspjs — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:50:53 GMT

They are certainly the unrefined, bottom of the barrel type of speech balloon

Re: speech balloons - can they be disabled?

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:54:48 GMT

Just googled. On the U.K. boards, an eBay rep has answered the question.

they cannot be disabled.

http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/eBay-UK-Community/Community-Enhancement-Mouse-over-a-post-title-to-view-more/td-p/3377283/page/2