How to see ALT text in Firefox

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Published on 2010-05-16T16:04:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 16:10 UTC
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I know Mozilla thinks it's a bug that IE shows ALT text even after the image has loaded; while users think it's a bug that Firefox doesn't work exactly like IE. This disagreement is irrelevant to my question:

How can I make my Firefox show the ALT tooltip when I hover the mouse over an image?
Obviously XKCD is a bit tame without this essential functionality.

I've tried the Firefox plugin Popup ALT Attribute but it doesn't work; after restarting the browser and hovering over an image with an ALT text, no tooltip appears. I reproduced this on several computers with several (Windows) OS versions.

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