399837 - Very long tab tooltips appear above the tab instead of below it

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

STR:

1. Open a page with a very, very long title, like the URL above
2. Position your browser window so that it sits flush with the menubar
3. Hover over the tab widget until the tooltip appears
4. Observe the placement of the tooltip

ER: Tooltip appears below the tab/mouse pointer like every other tab (and extends to the bottom of the screen or is middle-truncated, if necessary)
AR: Tooltip appears above the tab/pointer and is about 1" tall

Right now we get 1" of tooltip containing the very end of the title; if the tooltip appeared below the tab/pointer like every other tab, we'd get about 13" of tooltip containing most (more) of the title.  We might want to consider middle-truncating tooltips that just won't fit on the screen, though.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I don't suppose there's any way to make tooltips scroll, is there? :-p

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]