If you want to hover the popover itself as well you have to use a manual trigger.
This is what i came up with:
function enableThumbPopover() {
var counter;
$('.thumbcontainer').popover({
trigger: 'manual',
animation: false,
html: true,
title: function () {
return $(this).parent().find('.thumbPopover > .title').html();
},
content: function () {
return $(this).parent().find('.thumbPopover > .body').html();
},
container: 'body',
placement: 'auto'
}).on("mouseenter",function () {
var _this = this; // thumbcontainer
console.log('thumbcontainer mouseenter')
// clear the counter
clearTimeout(counter);
// Close all other Popovers
$('.thumbcontainer').not(_this).popover('hide');
// start new timeout to show popover
counter = setTimeout(function(){
if($(_this).is(':hover'))
{
$(_this).popover("show");
}
$(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
$('.thumbcontainer').popover('hide');
});
}, 400);
}).on("mouseleave", function () {
var _this = this;
setTimeout(function () {
if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
if(!$(_this).is(':hover')) // change $(this) to $(_this)
{
$(_this).popover('hide');
}
}
}, 200);
});
}