My bad, maybe. I must have been dreaming that I saw fu said she sped up contextual menu hover times on user icons because I can't find any proof of it. I just browsed a few years worth of the Changelog archives and googled like mad but I only came up with three related changes, and of those, fixing z-indexing (positioning) on contextual hover comes the closest to what I thought she had posted, which is still quite far off.
All I know is the behavior when I hovered on user heads and icons used to be exactly the same as ratcreature's and yours until a while ago, then I saw something in Changelog about speeding it up (or I thought I did), then about a week later I started getting the two-second effect (across DW, not just on my own journal and community). I prefer the old behavior (what ratcreature and you are seeing) to the two-second timing; it's too fast now, especially when I'm coding, which involves a lot of right-clicking and viewing source on the very menus that keep flying off on me before I can do anything with them.
As to whether the speed is dependent on browser/OS, I don't know. I'm using Firefox 9 on XP, but the hover thing sped up for me many versions back on Firefox already (version 4 or 5, I think).
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All I know is the behavior when I hovered on user heads and icons used to be exactly the same as ratcreature's and yours until a while ago, then I saw something in Changelog about speeding it up (or I thought I did), then about a week later I started getting the two-second effect (across DW, not just on my own journal and community). I prefer the old behavior (what ratcreature and you are seeing) to the two-second timing; it's too fast now, especially when I'm coding, which involves a lot of right-clicking and viewing source on the very menus that keep flying off on me before I can do anything with them.
As to whether the speed is dependent on browser/OS, I don't know. I'm using Firefox 9 on XP, but the hover thing sped up for me many versions back on Firefox already (version 4 or 5, I think).