Firefox is a popular web browser and one of the most popular Firefox add-ons is the Enhanced Balloon Tooltips. This add-on gives you more information about the contents of your web pages. The Enhanced Balloon Tooltips are available in Firefox version 52 and later. To install it, open Mozilla Firefox and click on the Add-ons tab. Then click on the Extensions button and select the Enhanced Balloon Tooltips from the list of options. Once you have installed the Enhanced Balloon Tooltips, you will see them in your Firefox window under Tools->Enhanced Balloon Tooltips. You can use these tools to get more information about your web pages. For example, you can see how many lines are in a page, how wide a page is, what type of content is present on a page, or how long a page has been online. If you want to stop using the Enhanced Balloon Tooltips, you can do so by clicking on Tools->Disable Enhanced BalloonTooltips in your Firefox window.
Before & After
For our example we have placed the “before & after shots” together for better comparison. First off we started with the How-To Geek logo.
Note: Does not display the original URL behind shortened URLs.
Next we moved on to a permanently linked article title.
The “Reviews Tab” in the How-To Geek website toolbar.
The article tags listing just beneath the HTG website toolbar.
And the link for subscribing to our RSS Feed. In each instance you could actually see the address behind the links.
The Tooltip Plus extension will also help out with images in webpages (including “Alt Text” if present). Notice that the link for the image is now available for you to view.
Options
The options are extremely simple to work with. Decide if you want a document icon to display, the size of the icon, and if you would like “Alt Text” for images to be displayed or not.
Conclusion
The Tooltip Plus extension does one thing and does it very well…it gives you that extra bit of information when you need it.
Links
Download the Tooltip Plus extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
