Highlight items under mouse pointer

[kevinw 8]

On every machine bar one, when I browse media items in Emby from within Firefox (Windows 10) each of the items the mouse pointer goes over 'lights up' with a green play icon, a heart, a tick and three dots. At the end of the screen row there's '>' to enable me to scroll.

On one of my PCs, obviously it's the one I use every day, that doesn't happen - moving the mouse pointer over an item has no effect at all so I assume I've changed something on the 'faulty' one. I've been through the settings several times as I'm sure it must be there but I can't find it.

Will someone put me out of my misery please.

Thanks.

Kevin

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what browser and version are you using there?

[kevinw 8]

Hi Luke.

It's the same browser on all of the PCs - Firefox, v84.02 (64-bit).

I ought to add they all have the same plug-ins as well as they're sync'd but it does just occur to me to check it with Firefox in Safe mode. I'll be back...

Kevin

Edited January 18, 2021 by kevinw

[kevinw 8]

Restarting Firefox is Safe mode made no difference. I'm quite pleased about that in a way as I'd have felt an even bigger idiot if it had been a plug-in causing the issue.

Kevin

[kevinw 8]

Exactly the same issue in Edge so it relates to this PC rather than a specific browser.

Kevin

[Luke 42077]

Do you have a touch input device connected?

[kevinw 8]

That's a good bit of lateral thinking. Yes, it's a laptop with a touch screen but when I'm at home I use a larger monitor with the laptop screen down.

I assume that's why it's behaving as it does. Is is there any way round it?

Kevin

[Luke 42077]

I'm not sure because the browser tells us the primary input method, and then certain things are presented in different ways based on that. I'd have to check but perhaps there are browser options that might influence this. Also if you have Windows 10 in tablet mode, that might be having an impact.

[kevinw 8]

6 minutes ago, Luke said:

I'm not sure because the browser tells us the primary input method, and then certain things are presented in different ways based on that. I'd have to check but perhaps there are browser options that might influence this. Also if you have Windows 10 in tablet mode, that might be having an impact.

No, I'm not running W10 in tablet mode.

Kevin

[Happy2Play 9780]

A guess is Display Mode: Auto sees something different on one system to the other.  I guess you could manually configure Display Mode.

 

User icon-Display Display mode (sometimes login out and back in are required for changes)

Edited January 18, 2021 by Happy2Play

[kevinw 8]

Good thought, thank you, but the only view that makes any difference is TV mode (which is pretty horrible on a PC, not surprisingly). Desktop and mobile/tablet both do the same thing as Auto. I tried logging off/in, restarting  Firefox but it didnt make any difference.

I checked Device Manager and saw the monitor driver was a generic one but putting the correct driver in and rebooting didn't make any difference either unfortunately.

Kevin

[Luke 42077]

Can the touch input be disabled on it?

[kevinw 8]

If it can I'm afraid I don't know how. I tried the two options highlighted here and here but neither made any difference.

Edit: I tried this as well but, again, no difference.

I'll put up with it. It's just a bit of a PITA when I'm trying to scroll the rows as I have no '>' to help me do that so I have to sort it out with the keyboard, once I've figured out which row I'm on.

Kevin

 

 

Edited January 19, 2021 by kevinw