147288 - title descriptions (tooltips) block right click context menu

Status: REOPENED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[u32858]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    200202051013

Right click on the links in the body, then the menu items are obsured by the
title tooltip

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Right click on the links in the body, then the menu items are obsured by the
title tooltip
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Blocks the 2nd item on the menu, or others

Expected Results:  should display behind or not at all while the context menu is
open


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Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

-> toolkit

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

this works for me on linux or win2k (linux with enlightenment/gnome with either 
focus-follows-mouse or click-to-focus).

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

reopen. I see this bug in linux trunk cvs (sawfish 1.0.1, XFree86 4.1.0.1).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Enter this link with the mouse: bug 147288
2. Right click -> context menu appears
3. Move mouse within the link, wait a second -> tooltip appears on top of
   context menu.

Bonus level:
4. Move onto context menu without straying onto the page outside the link on
   the way there -> tooltip remains on context menu
5. Click on tooltip -> bug 113536 (chrome ignores all mouse clicks)

Comment 4

[David A. Madore]

I see this bug also (using recent Mozilla trunk builds on GNU/Linux with
Gnome+sawfish).  It's a terrible pain on sites which over-use tooltip bubbles.

I confirm Tuukka's observations, including the "bonus level" part: I think the
latter justifies requalifying this bug's importance as more than "minor";
without it ("it" being the "bonus level" in question), the problem would indeed
be a mere inconvenience, but there we can wreak havoc in the whole chrome (try,
for example, activating the bonus level and then using keyboard shortcuts into
the context menu, e.g., "open link in new tab" - then the whole interface starts
behaving strangely).

Here is a link to a nice playground to experiment with this bug: <URL:
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/.test/bubbles.html >.

Comment 5

[Scott Gifford]

Still seeing this in 2002080708.  I actually encountered it using Bugzilla,
which doesn't use popups in a particularly bizarre way.

Comment 6

[Scott Gifford]

Actually, is this a dup of bug 155018?

Comment 7

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Not really.
clicking on a tooltip messes kills the rat -> bug 113536, bug 156764
tooltip appears on top of context menu -> this bug
both of the above, approximately -> bug 155018
...I suppose maybe this'll be fixed in 155018 though, marking dep

Comment 8

[Per Losenborg]

*** Bug 162065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Alain COLLET]

I have the same problem with Mozilla 1.2.1 on Mac OS 9.1: the tooltip hides the
second item of contextual menus "open link in new tab", as I use very often this
menu when browsing a blog for example it is very annoying. Try on
http://www.nitot.com/standards/blog/

Comment 10

[Scott Gifford]

The tooltip seems to go away in an appropriate way in FireBird 2003090 for Linux.

Comment 11

[Phillip Stewart :P]

Do you think that a tab tooltip blocking middle clicks in Firefox would be
covered by this bug?

Comment 12

[Phillip Stewart :P]

Perhaps this should be a dup of bug 45522 - tooltips should disappear on
input/motion

Comment 13

[MarjaE]

1. Tooltips also block left clicks.
2. The bug occurs across platforms.