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I want to turn on the feature where whenever I hover over a hyperlink and in the bottom lefthand corner it shows a light blue hover tooltip about where that link goes.

It looks like that since some days this earlier always-on feature is missing (Compare "Turn off the link hover statusbar in Google Chrome ")

Why do I want to turn it on? It's annoying to me to not see the URIs I'm going to request. I am distracted as I work not knowing those.

I really do care where a given link goes and wish I could turn that feature on again, even if I have to install a Google Chrome Extension (well I hate installing superfluous extensions, so better not and just give the flag or option name for that feature).

So, is there a fix to turn the amazing link hover tooltip feature on?

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hakre
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The official bug thread mentioned in Raveren's answer has been updated - several people, including me, have fixed this problem by disabling hardware acceleration (direct link to settings: chrome://settings/search#hardware%20acceleration):

  • Open Chrome Settings
  • Select "Show Advanced Settings"
  • Scroll down to "System"
  • un-check "Use hardware acceleration when available"

This worked for me, and is consistent with several problems I've had with both Google Chrome and various flavours of desktop Linux running on older (graphics) hardware.

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Harald
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Dragging the affected Tabs out of the window restores the URL target in the status bar

The bug (hovering an URL FAILS to trigger, in the bottom left corner of the tab, a temporary partial Status bar showing the target of that URL) has been narrowed with precision by "liam.bro..." on Sun 23 Feb 2014 17:10:41:

unveiled the cause: making a selection in a drop-down list triggers the bug in all the tabs in the current window

Whence an effective workaround: in the affected window, select all the tabs minus at least one (see Select and Move Multiple Tabs to a New Window in Chrome), and drag them out (thus creating a new window) or into another existing window: all the tabs at once recover their temporary partial status bar (for unknown reason, dragging ALL the tabs in a window doesn't work).

A few samples where to check it:

Note: Google most often pays just gimmick-attention to users' feedback, never really read their bug reports or suggestions, often closes or even deletes the forum threads involved (thus following the same path as Microsoft, and eventually the same fate). In this case, Google has closed the Issue 345698 to anyone who would have an improvement, whence my inability to post there, and my posting here instead.

Versailles, Sun 09 Mar 2014 17:22:20 +0100

Michel Merlin
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I found the problem.

This is the official bug thread for this issue:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8663

People mention some mouse-behaviour altering application and I found my problem in using 4t-min http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html that does something simmilarily unusual.

In a nutshell, the problem lies in 3rd party apps, not chrome itself: you should find which application blocks mouse hover and disable it.

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Restarting chrome brought it back for me.

Entering the following url will reload chrome without losing your open tabs. Their state may get reset, and any "added to desktop, windowed" tabs will not reopen, but you probably don't use those anyway.

chrome://restart

Credit: @richvdh

My Chrome Version:

Version 43.0.2357.65 (64-bit)

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Looks like it´s just a chrome bug on Win7 and there is no solution other than restarting chrome.

According to https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=345698 the problem starts when using a drop down menu...

It probably is not caused by hardware acceleration or any addons.

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Well, there must be some sort of flaw. According to other sources, this overlay can not be deactivated.

However on my end this was off.

I got it back after disabling two extensions (from the cv-pls club over in room 11) and then re-starting Chrome. This brought it back.

After that I re-enabled those two extensions and re-started again which didn't break it.

So I now have it back and the answer would be: Restart Chrome (probably with some extensions disabled).

I leave this here in form of an answer for further reference and will keep an eye on it if it happens again.

hakre
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Disabling hardware acceleration (incl Chrome restart) worked for me, per Harald's advice.

Running Win XP Home SP3, Chrome 33.0.1750.146 m

user306537
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The problem is also in chrome version <33.0.1750.146 m> running on XP3 - so not just a win7 problem.

I've installed "Link Revealer" which works fine.

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