269113 - Wrong mouse hover text displayed in back/forward dropdown menus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 209314

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Charles Lehardy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Ok, this is a fun one to explain... :-)

The wrong text is displayed when you hoever over an item in the dropdown list of
your previous pages and the list of the pages you can go forward to (if you've
gone back at all). Also, the SAME text is displayed in both lists.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox and browse to a couple of pages.
2. Hold your mouse over the Reload button until you get the mouse-hover text.
3. Click the down arrow next to the Back button (making sure to NOT get the
mouse-hover text for back).
4. Hold your mouse over any of the items in the menu (should be your previous
pages). This will now say "Reload current page".
5. Click the Back button.
6. Click the down arrow next to the Forward button (again, making sure to not
get the mouse-hover text for the Forward button).
7. Hover the item shown there. It should also say "Reload current page".


Expected Results:  
The back dropdown text should say "Go back to <web address>" and the forward
text should say "Go forward to <web address>", or similar (at least, that'd be
preferred).

Or, at least have them say "Go (back|forward) <num> page(s)" where num is the
item number of the one you're hovering over.

The cause of the problem seems to be that the text that's shown is the same as
the last toolbar button you hovered over. So, if you hovered over the Reload
button and got it to say "Reload current page" and then clicked the down arrow
next to back, then hovered over one of the items there, it would say "Reload
current page". This also applies to the forward button's dropdown menu (as they
both display the same text, whatever that is).

If you have NOT hovered over any toolbar items yet and you follow steps 3 and 4,
then you will get a small, blank box shown instead.

Comment 1

[Charles Lehardy]

Attachment: The wrong text shown when going back pages

Comment 2

[Charles Lehardy]

Attachment: Wrong text shown when going forward in pages

Comment 3

[Gary van der Merwe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209314 ***