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Also, mouse-hover on an internal link brings up a snippet view of the resulting page. What is really cool is, this works for links in the snippet view as well, so you can open nested snippet after snippet.

These had been available to logged in users as a Beta for quite a while now (~3 months? Can't remember when it started..)



It has to be enabled from the Gadgets preferneces for a logged in user:

> Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links

for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popu...


Doesn’t work for me, neither in Firefox nor Safari. Strange.


Woops, looks like they moved only the appearance over. The hover-snippet thing is is still visible only to logged in users. Sorry, hadn't tested it out first!


This doesn't work for me. (Chrome/Linux)

Sound quite cool though.




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