There's more than one tooltip bug. This bug has been around for a while. But there are other ones that have introduced and fixed since this bug was filed. Specifically I'm thinking of bug 1689682 and bug 1701070 which landed in 89. Could you maybe see if your problem is fixed in 89?
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There's more than one tooltip bug. This bug has been around for a while. But there are other ones that have been introduced and fixed since this bug was filed. Specifically I'm thinking of bug 1689682 and bug 1701070 which landed in 89. Could you maybe see if your problem is fixed in 89?