233286 - [FIXr]Empty "tooltips" appear as little yellow squares where they shouldn't

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040206

When placing the mouse cursor over, for example, the location bar, an empty
little yellow square appears (???!?!?!?!?).
Also when browsing through the available smileys, the same thing happens.
Maybe in other places too.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.place the mouse cursor over the location bar (and other places too)
2. wait a few seconds
3.

Actual Results:  
A little yellow square (sort of a tooltip) appears

Expected Results:  
nothing should happen.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Regressed between 2004-01-29-08 and 2004-01-30-09.  Possible culprits:  bug
196755 (my money is on this one), bug 109772.

Full checkin list in that range:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2004-01-29+08%3A00%3A00&maxdate=2004-01-30+09%3A00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Note that tooltips in general are OK (eg the one for the "alias" label at the
top of this page or the home button on the personal toolbar...)

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

The smileys is a duplicate bug... I've got an experimental patch for that which
might mean that I can't reproduce the location bar bug.

Comment 3

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

More on the location bar bug.
I just noticed that random tips may appear also...
Along with the empty mini tooltip, now "reload current page" or "go back one
page" appear randomly when placing the mouse cursor over the location bar.
Restarting mozilla may change the tooltip.

Comment 4

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

Oh, and BTW, since we're in the smileys-bug topic, also i still see blank
(empty) lines while browsing the available smileys drop-down menu (but i guess
that's another bug, already in discussion)

Comment 5

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

Alright, now i got it 100% right!!!!!
When placing the mouse cursor over the location bar, the last tooltip "used" is
what shows up. If you have just started mozilla, then only a blank tooltip
shows, since there's no last-tooltip to show.
try it:
start mozilla, place the cursor over the buttons and then over the location bar,
one at a time (i mean, button, then bar, then another button, then bar
again,etc) and you'll see.

Comment 6

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

same thing with the smileys: press ctrl-M, place the mouse over any button that
displays a tooltip and then browse through the smileys...you'll see what i mean.
Strangely enough, the tooltip bug is restricted to each application. I mean, if
you place the cursor over...say, the "reload" button, then "reload current page"
appears when placing the cursor over the location bar, but only a blank tooltip
appears over the smileys...but if you place the mouse over a button in the new
message woindow, than that tooltip will appear over the smileys, but not in the
location bar....
ufff, it was kind of dificult to explain, hope you guys get the point.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to comment #4)
>Oh, and BTW, since we're in the smileys-bug topic, also i still see blank
>(empty) lines while browsing the available smileys drop-down menu (but i guess
>that's another bug, already in discussion)
Bug 231293 should have fixed this bit, but didn't :-(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147670 ***

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So Neil, what am I missing?  What's up with the URL bar tooltips?  That's a
recent regression, and bug 147670 is pretty old...

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

OK, I spoke too soon...

Comment 10

[Alexander Opitz]

*** Bug 233190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Retarget events as they bubble out of native anonymous content

Thanks to Neil for the idea

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is pretty bad -- all sorts of weird event targets are exposed without this
patch.

Comment 13

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 140778 [details] [diff] [review]
Retarget events as they bubble out of native anonymous content

bryner, would you review?  The CSSFrameConstructor changes are to make the
CSS-generated :before/:after content anonymous, as long as I was doing this.

Comment 14

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 140778 [details] [diff] [review]
Retarget events as they bubble out of native anonymous content

r+sr=bryner

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 140778 [details] [diff] [review]
Retarget events as they bubble out of native anonymous content

Requesting approval for 1.7a.  This can cause web page scripts to get pointers
to anonymous content from events, which is bad for a number of reasons (in this
case, probably just correctness, though -- I  don't think native anonymous
content has security implications...)

Comment 16

[timeless]

This affects my commercial work (absolutely breaking my recordings).

Comment 17

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment on attachment 140778 [details] [diff] [review]
Retarget events as they bubble out of native anonymous content

a=dveditz for 1.7a

Comment 18

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Checked in for 1.7a.

Comment 19

[Chris Vance]

Has this fix regressed in current builds?

I see empty tooltips, as described in the reporter's description, when hovering
over links in the Back/Forward dropdown menus.  This behavior (empty tooltips)
only occurs when I have not hovered over the main button long enough to generate
its tooltip.

The behavior I see is probably related to bug 147670 insofar as the tooltips may
not cascade to the child nodes (the links in the Back/Forward menu, in my
example) until I hover over the main button.  Once I've generated the tooltip
for the main button, the child items show the tooltips.

Seen on WinXP SP2 in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Firefox/0.9.1+

The tooltips, when shown, DO have problems, as documented in my bug 254224.

So, do the empty tooltips I see represent a regression on the this fixed bug, or
should I file a new bug?

Comment 20

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Has this fix regressed in current builds?

If it has, please file a separate bug.

Comment 21

[Chris Vance]

(In reply to comment #20)
> > Has this fix regressed in current builds?
> 
> If it has, please file a separate bug.

This buggy behavior (empty tooltips) is covered in bug 147670.  I won't file a
separate bug as I think things have been covered appropriately.