320495 - when truncating too long RSS headlines, make tooltip with complete text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237592

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Emmanuel Touzery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Many news websites have RSS headlines which are very often if not all the time too long to be displayed in the live bookmarks. so firefox truncates them. which is great. what i would like to have is that, when the truncated live bookmark headline is under the mouse, you get a tooltip with the full headline.
that's the way many websites and many user interfaces do it.

example of sites with typically too long headlines:
http://www.lemonde.fr/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

i'll attach a screenshot


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go on the website (http://www.lemonde.fr/ for instance)
2. subscribe to the RSS feed
3. the live bookmarks are truncated, the only way to get the full headline is to visit them (which defeats the purpose of RSS)

Comment 1

[Emmanuel Touzery]

Attachment: a screenshot showing the problem with lemonde.fr

you can see all the headlines but one are truncated, which makes browsing difficult. most are understandable without the full text, but for some, only clicking on the link to get the full title will help.
showing the full text on the tooltip would help a lot.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 253912?

Comment 3

[Karim El Founas]

The Mac OS version allows longer headlines and then the problem is less annoying on this platform.

Comment 4

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

this is fixed with bug 237592 patch