Furigana text inserted by Ruby hinders mouse hovering

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Issue occurs on:
OS: Latest Windows 7 (2012-11-24)
Browser: happens with all modern Firefox version above 3.6 (v17)
Furigana Inserter: happens with all 2.x versions

Problem:
With any "modern" FF, inserting furigana via Ruby will "cover" the upper parts 
of the original text line with an invisible layer. This prevents the Rikaichan 
mouse-hovering (as well as the recently built-in translation popup feature) 
from working. 

Simply put, you only get the hover-popups if you carefully approach the 
word/kanji from the bottom. If you try from above, usually nothing happens.

One can counteract this somewhat by choosing a high value for Ruby line 
spacing, thus placing the ruby text far enough from the original text to still 
have roughy half of the height of the original line available for 
hovering/getting translations - but this eats up a <lot> of space on an already 
fairly cramped screen. 

I have been using ITH+FF for years now (and agth before that), and I played 
around a lot with various settings in FF and FuriganaInserter, but the issue 
remains. As a result, I am still using an ages-old Furigana Inserter with a 
FF3.6 that never showed this issue (different rendering engine?). 

I assumed this issue was known and would be resolved over the years, but 
nothing happened. By now you even added your own translation popup feature, and 
even that shows the same ruby/hovering problems as rikaichan does.

In this form, using any hover-based translation with FuriganaInserter is pretty 
inconvenient.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by v.i0487....@googlemail.com on 24 Nov 2012 at 11:01

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Thank you for the bug report. Please provide a screen shot or a youtube video 
that shows the problem. I have set the ruby font size to 1.0 em and the ruby 
line height to 1.2 em and I have no problems with the translation popup. My 
screen looks like on the screen shots in the Wiki.

I don't use Rikaichan, so I can't comment on it, but FI's translation popup 
works perfectly. I use it all the time and you are the first one, who reported 
a problem. 

I also suggest using a bigger monitor or better yet two monitors. I use two 
monitors and don't have any problems with screen space.

Original comment by zorkz...@hotmail.com on 24 Nov 2012 at 2:38

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Closing because there was no reply in a long time.

Original comment by zorkz...@hotmail.com on 22 Dec 2012 at 2:27

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