Maybe a setting to turn off the popups could be nice for you. But personally, I like these popups. A greasemonkey script maybe! :) - Éric Senterre

Eric, the best of both worlds may be a way to show the info popups when you want them, e.g. through some nonobtrusive info link... because indeed their content can be useful at times (just not at seemingly *random* times). Hovering my mouse over paragraph 1 currently results in parts of text of paragraph 1 or 2 to be hidden. IMO, this is going the similar dark interface road as Snap link info popups or those NYT text-selection popups. - Philipp Lenssen

I recently discovered that these popups occur when you move your cursor over someone's name.. but it really confused me the first time it happened.. :) - Alex Barbara

@Philipp: You always have the word of wisdom, sincerly. You're right, too much popups may become annoying. :) - Éric Senterre

I think popups over links and icons are better that popups over random text. The timestamp popup is really the offender here, I think everything else is fine. The size of that popup and the size of its trigger zone aren't really commensurate with the usefulness of the data it presents. - ⓞnor

It'd be nice if the hover area was much, much smaller. Maybe just over the comment bubble on the left? - Mark Trapp

Yeah, that seems about right to me (just the bubble icon). - ⓞnor

Can you guys ever see the popup, or is it always hidden behind the 2nd time-stamp pop-up that says "Philipp Lenssen posted this comment 5 hours ago"? For me the main pop-up is always hidden behind this one, so it's of no use. - j1m

The "main pop-up" being the per-person "business card"? It's quite a bit bigger than the timestamp pop-up, so I can still see most of it. (Not the critical "is/is not subscribed to you" part, though.) Also, after the business card pops up, I can mouse over the business card itself, and it remains but the timestamp pop-up doesn't. - ⓞnor

Yeah. And yeah, only the beginning part is hidden, but that always derails any use I might make of it. So I guess in the end those popups are just crud, like most other pop-ups. But I think if they didn't overlap they'd be useful. Good to know that I can select among them, tho. - j1m

What happened with this feature? Did FF listen to Philipp or something is wrong on my side? I think that the info was very valuable, but I agree that the trigger should be constrained to hovering over the "call-out" icons or integrated in the profile pop-up when hovering over the name of the poster - Vlado Handziski