142656 - Tooltips occasionally don't disappear

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Gordon Schumacher]

Sometimes when opening a new window, the previous window's tooltip will not be
closed.  By switching to the former window and hovering over the offending tool,
the tooltip will then be closed.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Conrirm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98SE; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020505
and other versions at leas since 0RC1.

Sometimes tooltips stay at the old place in the new TAB or Window, sometimes
they first close and than reopen at another place in the window, before the new
TAB opens, where the tooltip then still is shown.

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: original Tooltip

Title-Tag for picture

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Tooltip still shown in the new opened TAB

Comment 4

[Marc Boullet]

related: bug #128440

Comment 5

[Adam Price]

Tooltips don't disappear for me either (Build: 2002052305) Macosx.

It is entirely reproducible. 

1.  Hover over toolbar link until tooltip for link appears.
2.  Command-tab to switch applications.  Tooltip will persist on top of front
window until Mozilla is put in the foreground again.

Comment 6

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Tooltips doesn't always for me also. Using linux 2002052507. Happens most
notibly when hovering over a tab. The tooltip showing the title shows up. Next I
move to antoher workplace (by 'pressing' my mouse pointer to the side of the
screen). Sometime the tootltip stays visble in hte other screen. Have to go back
to remove it.

Comment 7

[Seb Wills]

I too get non-disappearing tooltips (with linux 2002051013), in the following
situation:

1. Open the search sidebar, and get some results displayed in it.
2. Point the mouse somewhere *above* the search results list, e.g. over the
search terms textbox, or over a toolbar (not over the list of search results,
and not in the main browser panel).
4. Now, move the mouse down into the list of search results. At this stage it
doesn't matter if you wait until a tooltip pops up or not.
5. Now move the mouse either rightwards out of the search results and into the
main browser pane, or leftwards out of the mozilla window entirely.
6. The tooltip for one of the search results pops up (or remains popped up if
you waited long enough for it to popup in step 4). It stays indefinitely, until
you point to it or go back into the search results list.

Possibly related: bug #148820

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> XP Toolkit

Comment 9

[Michael Lefevre]

reporter: can you (or anyone else) reproduce this bug with a recent build of
mozilla (for example, 1.2)? if so, please comment again with details. if not,
please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 10

[Rainer Bielefeld]

As I see the situation, the bug is not really solved, but no longer a problem.
I tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122

Steps:
1. clear cache
2. goto http://home.t-online.de/home/Bielefeld__Buss_oHG/seite20.htm
3. wait until load is finished
4. move mousepointer to header "REFERENZEN" and click immedeately (before tooltip 
   appears)
   expected: new page will be shown without tooltip
   actual (for me in 7 of 10 tests): new page starts loading, and tooltip 
   "Stand 25.11.2002" will be shown for 2 ... 4 seconds   
   

Comment 11

[Mikael Parknert]

Reporter: Can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of Mozilla (for
example, 1.4rc3)? 

If so, then please comment again with details. 
If not, then please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks.

Comment 12

[Gordon Schumacher]

Dadgummit... It seems like I've seen this recently, but I can't reproduce it. 
It may have been before I upgraded, too.  I'm running 20030612... tell ya what,
I can close it for now and re-open it if I see it again.

Comment 13

[Gordon Schumacher]

Yup, just reproduced it again on v1.4 build 20030612 - is that recent enough to
be relevant?

Comment 14

[Mikael Parknert]

Attachment: testcase

when I put the pointer over the link, the tooltip shows up. 
then quickly moving focus to other window (alt+tab in windows)
gives this result:
1. other window overlap tooltip: tooltip disappear at once
2. no overlap: tooltip disappear after a few secs

this looks like ok behaviour to me

Comment 15

[Gordon Schumacher]

I've not managed to make it reproducible on demand- including with this
testcase.  But I've had it occur in the normal usage of my system such that the
tooltip stays put - indeed, perhaps after several seconds it will go away, but
applications should not leave bits of themselves lying about in front of other
apps.  Now, admittedly, rolling the mouse over the tooltip will generally make
it go away - but again, this is still not good behaviour.

Comment 16

[Gordon Schumacher]

Okay, I now have a procedure to reproduce this bug.

1) Set cookies to "Ask me before storing a cookie".
2) Visit a site which will generate a cookie request.
3) Before the cookie comes up, hover the mouse over an item which will generate
a tooltip.
4) When the dialog comes up to query whether Mozilla should accept the cookie,
switch to another application.  The tooltip will stick around...

Comment 17

[Aaron Lawrence]

Trying again with Moz 1.8a3, W2K, even if a popup dialog (e.g password prompt;
cookie prompt doesn't exist any more?) is generated the tooltip goes away.
Pressing any key clears it to.

Comment 18

[Gordon Schumacher]

I can say that I haven't seen it in a long, long time - but I'm running Firefox
now.  My testcase that I posted below seems to work in Firefox.