391743 - An A tag with a TITLE attribute does not display a tooltip.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64232

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mikol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

I believe the summary and the details provided below are sufficient.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Include an A tag with a non-blank TITLE attribute in an HTML document.
2. View the document.
3. Hover the mouse cursor over the resulting link.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should display a tooltip corresponding to the TITLE attribute's value when the mouse cursor hovers over the link.

Comment 1

[mikol]

Attachment: A simple HTML document including an A tag with a non-blank TITLE attribute

Comment 2

[mikol]

Seems to be a Linux-only problem.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6" works as expected.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Works for me with a Mozilla.com build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Also works with a vendor build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty)

Comment 4

[mikol]

I created a new profile. With the new profile, Firefox exhibits the expected behavior.

I tried disabling all of the add-ons in my normal profile, but was still able to reproduce the problem.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Sounds like your profile got misconfigured somehow. If you're game, please use the link below to transfer files over from your old profile to a new one. Do this until you determine which file is the problem and, depending on the file (I'm looking at you user.js), which line in the file could be causing the problem.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile

If you're not game, I'd like to go ahead and close this bug as WORKSFORME.

Comment 6

[mikol]

I'll try to set aside some time to do this in the next week.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Did you disable toolbar tooltips in your preferences or something?

Comment 8

[mikol]

Apparently, yes. Though I'm not even sure how that happened.

Enabling them (i.e., restoring the default) using about:config corrected my problem.

Anyway, I wouldn't expect browser.chrome.toolbar_tips to influence TITLE attributes in the page. But if that's as designed and not controversial, feel free to mark this one invalid.