131131 - Tooltips show up over other windows

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Johan Dahl]

Tooltips from browser sometimes shows up above all windows even if Mozilla is in
the background.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Johan, what build are you using?

Comment 2

[Johan Dahl]

I was using the Mozilla 0.9.9 build. I should have downloaded a new one 
but 0.9.9. It doesn't occcur all the time.

Comment 3

[scalkins]

I see this all platforms. Esp with commercial.
Nominating.
Internal folks see bug http://bugscape/show_bug.cgi?id=12501 for good test 
cases.

Comment 4

[scalkins]

PS,..I saw it 
Win32 2002-03-20-05 Trunk

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per Nav triage team

Comment 6

[Joseph Elwell]

Steps to reproduce: 
1. Launch Browser.
2. Open another app (like a dos prompt) and put it in front of (overlapping) 
the browser, just right of the reload button.
3. Hover the mouse over the reload button.

Observe: Reload Tooltip shows up thru other app.
Expected: Wshould hide tooltips when we are not the frontmost app.

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1+/adt3

Comment 8

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Triage Team: Other apps depend on this toolkit functionality.  (See bugscape 12501.)

Comment 10

[Cees T.]

Duplicate of bug 49679.

Comment 11

[jag (Peter Annema)]

It is kinda a dupe, though bug 49679 seems to be dealing more with "Always On
Top" apps (where Mozilla or the reference app has focus), while this bug seems
to be dealing with Mozilla showing tooltips even when it doesn't have focus,
where other apps don't show tooltips, at least on Windows and Mac OS X.

Comment 12

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Oh, and of course that in bug 49679 we want tooltips to show up, but on Windows
apparently not on top of the "Always On Top" app. On Mac we do want tooltips on
top of the "Always On Top" app. For this bug we don't want tooltips to show up.

Comment 13

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 311558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Soren Ragsdale]

I'm using Firefox 1.5cr2 for OSX and I'm still seeing this bug.

Comment 15

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Alternate steps to reproduce:
Have mailnews open, showing a folder/newsgroup with a truncated name.  Use the context menu to open that folder in a new window.  Ensure that the new mailnews window covers the old one so that the mouse is now above the new window.  Nudge the mouse slightly, and you get a tooltip from the old mailnews window.

Alternate-alternate steps to reproduce:
Have mailnews open, showing a folder/newsgroup with a truncated name.  Position another in-process window (e.g. browser, js console) so that it partially overlaps the truncated name; hover over this other window where the truncated name is, and a tooltip appears.

Comment 16

[Mikel Ward]

This is a little bit annoying in normal use, but it makes my Link Tooltip Greasemonkey script (http://mikelward.com/software/firefox/) almost unusable.  Tooltips remain visible after changing to a different tab or window.

Comment 17

[Mikel Ward]

I should also have mentioned: What makes this so annoying is that the tooltip shows up even in other windows.  If I then hover over the tooltip, Firefox switches back to the window or tab that the tooltip belongs to.

Comment 18

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tooltips totally busted, not working at all for folders for thunderbird 2008041203 vista - so can't test current trunk. comment 15 happens with version 2.0.0.13pre (20080227)

Comment 19

[Alexander Sack]

still an issue for anyone?

Comment 20

[Alexander Sack]

is this a bug at all? happens with other gtk 2 apps too here on ubuntu intrepid.

Comment 21

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

seen once in the last week on vista. However, I'm not sure it's the same problem because until then I hadn't seen it in several months.

Comment 22

[Micah Gersten]

In Firefox 3.5 and 3.0, the tooltip appears when you hover over the window not in focus, but disappears when you leave the window.  So, is this a bug?

Comment 23

[Andrei Purice]

Marking this as Resolved > Worksforme since the issue doesn't happen on Windows 10 on either of the latest Firefox versions.
If anyone is still able to reproduce this please re-open or file a new issue.