1912386 - New Tab preview stays visible and hides the underlying text

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Mathieu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Steps to reproduce:

When I click on a tab a new tab preview popup is shown

Actual results:

The tab preview popup stays active. This hides the underlying text .
This is very annoying and I can't disable the tab preview functionality in the configuration.

Expected results:

I don't need this functionality unless it hides immediately after the tab is active.
Please make it possible to disable this functionality

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alexander Browne]

@Mathieu: At least for now, you can open about:config and set browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to false. (I've found I have to do this every time I restart Firefox, but for me that is preferable because of the issue I just files in bug 1914222, which is similar to this report.)

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:niklas, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! Thank you for submitting this issue I have tried to reproduce the issue on my end but unfortunately I wasn't able to with firefox 131.0a1(2024-08-07) on Ubuntu 22.04 .
Could you please answer the following questions in order to further investigate this issue?

1. Does this issue happen with a new profile? Here is a link on how to create one: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
2. Does this issue happen in the latest nightly? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
3. Do you have any addons installed? If yes could you please list them?
4. Could you please provide an screenshot or video recording of this issue?

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:dwalker, since the bug has recent activity, could you have a look please?

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