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What are QuickViews and how do they work?

Last Updated: 26 January 2010
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QuickViews are a new feature that allow you to preview your favourite websites right from your Yahoo! homepage. You can still navigate to your favourite webpages directly by clicking on the name or icon in the My Favourites list, or you can open them in a QuickView. By default, QuickViews open only when you select them, but you can set your QuickViews to open automatically.

To use a QuickView, all you have to do is move your mouse over one of the items in My Favourites and the Open QuickView popup appears.

Location of Open QuickView button

Clicking on Open QuickView will display a preview of the item, giving you the latest and most pertinent information at a glance. To close the QuickView, you can either click on the left side of the QuickView, or click in the upper right corner.

Changing pages in the Apps list

Several other types of actions will also close a QuickView:

  • Opening another QuickView. Only one QuickView can be open at a time, so opening a second QuickView closes the first.
  • Clicking outside the QuickView.
  • Moving to another My Favourites page by clicking on one of the numbers at the bottom of the list.

How do I open QuickViews automatically?

If you prefer to have QuickViews open automatically when you roll over an item, you can enable this behavior by clicking the QuickView on Rollover checkbox at the bottom of the My Favourites list.



QuickView on Rollover is also available as an option that can be set in the Page Options menu at the top of the homepage.

Location of Page Options button

QuickView on Rollover checkbox

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