What is the Hover Menu? How do I enable or disable it?

Hover Menu Features for All Accounts

• See your status with that user or journal: The Hover Menu mentions if you list the user as a friend, if they are a mutual friend, if you are watching a feed or community or if you are a member of a community. If you have no current connections with the user, feed, or community, it will simply list the username.


• See a journal's userpics: Click on the userpic displayed in the hover menu to go see the userpics uploaded to that journal.


• Add or edit your note for that journal.


• Social Capital:See the Social Capital for a community or a user opted into Cyrillic Services.


• Buy a virtual gift from the LiveJournal Gift Shop for a user or community.

Hover Menu Features for Personal Journals

• Add or remove the user to or from your Friends list.


• Show all posts by user (appears when you hover over someone's account type icon, userhead or userpic while viewing a specific community).


• Send a private message to the user.


• Buy a custom userhead for yourself or another user.


• LJ Talk status — online or away (unless the user has set the option “Show LJ Talk online status to Nobody”)


• Report a bot account to be reviewed by the Abuse Prevention Team.


• Ban user — from commenting in your journal and/or in your communities.

Hover Menu Features for Communities

• Join or leave the community.


• Watch or stop watching the community.