117377 - tooltips with no text shouldn't appear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147670

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Dan Tobias]

When you mouseover the icon to the left of the URL on the URL bar, what shows as
a tooltip isn't relevant to that; rather, it just repeats the text of whatever
tooltip you last saw.  For instance, if you go from the "Stop" button to the URL
bar icon, "Stop loading this page" shows as the tooltip for the URL bar icon
too.  (It's also placed in an excessively wide box, but that's already covered
in bug 116258.)

Comment 1

[Mauricio Collares [:collares]]

I can see this using a Mozilla CVS build on Linux

Confirming

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

changing summary to reflect general case - if there is no tooltiptext to
display, the tooltip should never appear

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

I fixed the bug originally reported here.  This bug occurs in rare conditions, I
doubt it manifests itself elsewhere in the product currently.  Why nsbeta1+? 
Resetting for reevaluation.

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

wfm in current builds on Win2K and Linux, if there are other cases, please
report specifics.

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

Verifying.  This was fixed in bug 87949.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Reopening. There are actually more cases than I thought, for example, hover over
a menuitem in any dual menubutton dropdown (e.g. back/forward's).  A fix for
this would not fix the root problem, but would prevent those from appearing.

Comment 7

[:deanis74]

Yes, I see this now.  Shouldn't be that tought to fix, I wouldn't think.

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per ADT triage team

Comment 9

[Peter Eschenbrenner]

This is effecting Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 as well.  When no tooltip text exists
for an item, it reuses the previous text.

Example:
In the compose window (html editing enabled):
Hover over the Spell button until tooltip appears
Now open the Smiley Faces drop down
Hover over any of the items in the list
The Spell tooltip text appears: "Check spelling of selection or entire page".

Now, this might have been overlooked because if you hover over the Smiley Faces
button before triggering the drop down list, the items use the "Insert a smiley
face" text.

The list items on the "Insert a Link, Anchor, Image, Horizontal Line, or Table"
have this same problem.

Just another trivial cosmetic bug...

Comment 10

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Could someone with appropriate permissions adjust Component (it's no longer
Location Bar bug) and Target Milestone? Also, bug 209314 depends on this.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

Dup of bug 147670?

Comment 12

[Steve Chapel]

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