Post by @johannab@cosocial.ca

Hey fedi-folk, and I think maybe particularly @cheeaun or @phanpy ... I am getting a weird hovertext thing happening and I *think* I have it isolated to Phanpy. See pictures. When scrolling the timeline, if I pause over an image, the hovering text appears and I usually see this as image alt text. For the last week or so, the floating text has been file names completely unrelated to anything I have open much less in focus.

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A screenshot of a cat picture, showing floating hover-text that is NOT the image alt text but seems to be the file name of a PDF that is somewhere else on my computer

A screenshot of a capybara picture, showing floating hover-text that is NOT the image alt text but seems to be the file name of a .dmg that is somewhere else on my computer, something I downloaded many days ago.

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Johanna, CanCon variety

@johannab@cosocial.ca 1 hr. ago

@cheeaun @phanpy

Testing is a bit more since posting. It doesn't happen on every image, and it's not the same file ever time, and it doesn't even happen on the SAME image consistently if I go back and hover. But also, right after posting the post above, I got a non-file-name hover-text that was still unrelated to the image -looks like a hovertext from the Mastodon client? Which I had opened earlier but was not open at this time.