mapping it to your normal mouse click would block the click - and yes it would also come with some performance issues.
You could map it to e.g. opt+click, that should work ok, you can also output a separate opt+click in the else branch in case no link is hovered
I haven't thought about anything specific, I think there are many potential usecases.
The reason why I implemented capturing the hovered link was to show dynamic floating menus depending on the hovered url.
Thank you. Would this also work for hover text in addition to links?
Additionally, I'm trying to hook this feature up with Floating views (to show perplexity immediately and asking it to summarize the url). I keep facing this issue where BTT keep minimizing my floating view size to smallest after a restart. can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? It happens to all my floating views.
perplexitybtt.bttpreset (23.0 KB)
Hovered text is complicated because it is not well defined like a link (a link is always a specific element, text can be lots of things - and usually it's only possible to retrieve a full paragraph, retrieving e.g. a specific hovered word is even more complex).
I'll checkout your preset, by minimum size you mean it resets to what is defined here?
I guess it's that size. i posted the screenshot in my previous message, it becomes really small.
do you need to allow for such small sizes? Otherwise you could increase the minimum size for now
Such a joy to use this app Andreas. Thank you for making our work so much easier and productive. BTT really is a superb app. 
the one last feature I'd want is text expansion, without key sequences - because that is slightly difficult to use. Just a normal text expander like Alfred/Keyboard Maestro gives us.