265217 - Tooltips defined on an image with the title property won't display on first load from another application

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Francois Ingelrest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0

When the title property is defined for an <img> tag, Firefox displays it as a
tooltip when the mouse is over the image. Sometimes, the tooltip does not appear.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close Firefox
2. Click on this link: http://fingelrest.silent-blade.org/index_en.html from an
external application (you can send yourself a mail with this address for example)
3. Wait for the page to load
4. Mouse your mouse over the picture in the page (sorry, it's my personal website)

Actual Results:  
The tooltip does not appear

Expected Results:  
The tooltip should have been displayed

If you click on the page, and the move again you cursor over the image, the
tooltip will be displayed.

I think there are some more situations where the tooltip is not displayed, but
this one works for me every time.

Comment 1

[Gary van der Merwe]

I was not able to reproduce this in neither
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019 Firefox/1.0
nor
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041017 Firefox/1.0

opening the links from a Outlook email.

Comment 2

[Ross Shannon]

Not seeing this either. The issue you're describing is that the page does not
get focus when opened from another application. Can you name the app that you
opened the page from when you had the problem, and what your options are under
"Tabbed Browsing" in the prefs.

Comment 3

[Francois Ingelrest]

I'm using thunderbird to test this, as I use the address of my wesite as a
signature for my e-mails.

My preferences are 'Open a new tab in the most recent window' (but this happens
when Firefox is closed, so a new window is opened), 'force links that open new
window to open in the same tab/window' and 'select new tabs opened from
bookmarks/hystory' (these two options are not linked to this problem I think).

For the focus suggestion, everything looks like the Firefox window has the
focus: the color of the title bar is 'normal' for a selected window and the
button in the task bar is selected. This is reproducable evey time for me, and
I'm not sure this is really linked to a focus problem, as the tootltip will
appear if I move my cursor elsewhere and then move it back over the image
(without clicking on the window). It seems that the first 'on hover' is not
detected, but next ones are correctly taken into account since the tooltip appears.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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