Closed Bug 1571233 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Tooltip stays on screen forever until you return to the tab that caused it

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
68 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1550637

People

(Reporter: omgitsraven, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

On Windows 10 1809, Firefox 64-bit 68.0.1:

  1. Position your cursor over an element that will cause a tooltip to appear.
  2. BEFORE THE TOOLTIP APPEARS, immediately change to another tab using your mouse's "next tab" button (i.e. tilting the scroll wheel to the right).

(Note: I have not been able to reproduce this using the actual ctrl+tab keys on my keyboard, only by tilting my mousewheel, even though my mouse's software claims that that's mapped to ctrl+tab—so it's possibly related to the "keys" being pressed+released near-instantly by the mouse drivers.)

Actual results:

A moment after arriving on the new tab, the tooltip from the previous tab will appear.

  • Moving your mouse won't make it disappear.
  • Clicking it won't make it disappear.
  • Alt-tabbing to a different application won't make it disappear.
    The only thing that will make it disappear is switching back to the tab that the tooltip belongs to.
    This doesn't happen in any other program, and it only started happening in Firefox within the past few weeks (I've been using Firefox, and this mouse, for years).

Expected results:

It's not the end of the world for a tooltip to appear over the wrong page, but it should be dismissable without having to hunt for which tab I was on when I accidentally summoned it.

Thanks for report. It will be fixed in Firefox 69 stable.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
QA Contact: Virtual
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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