399685 - After landing of #387996, URLs in location bar disappear on hover?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 398346

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Zulith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007101222 Minefield/3.0a9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007101222 Minefield/3.0a9pre

After #387996 landed, a new 'feature'(or maybe just a bug?) is that the url disappears when you hover over a URL or press CTRL+L to make the location bar active. I fail to see the usefulness of this, if it is by design. Also it makes copying url links a bit confusing, if not impossible, for most users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open build after landing of #387996
2. hover over url bar, or activae it by clicking inside or CTRL+L
3. url disappears/fades out
Actual Results:  
url disappears. why?

Expected Results:  
url should not disappear. this is confusing.

Comment 1

[Zulith]

I restared Fx in safe mode to check something (unrelated), and then restarted it normally. Now the 'hover' is not happening. Not really sure what the deal is... May not be related to that landing afterall. Though I seem to remember it popping up after the first land.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. open build after landing of #387996

Are you sure you don't mean "open build from anytime in the past 2 weeks or so, and customize the toolbar"? This sounds like bug 398346.

Comment 3

[Zulith]

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that bug. Sorry for the dupe. Marked as invalid.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv