419313 - Live Bookmarks items in Bookmarks menu should display full item title as tooltip when selected

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 237592

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022407 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022407 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Live Bookmarks items in Bookmarks menu should display full item title as tooltip when selected, instead of doing nothing when the item ends with "...".

See screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: Item title with trailing "...". No way of knowing what the title is in the menu.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

Sorry Stephen, I thought I was the one how choose "Places". 

Reverting.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Seems a dupe of bug 253912.

Comment 4

[Andrés Delfino]

Note that the proposed change is more precise, and simpler than the mentioned in 253912.

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Agree that this isn't a dupe, just a subset of bug 253912 and a much easier fix. Doesn't block, though.

Comment 6

[Andreas Wuest]

Duplicate of #320495, but it's probably better to keep this one open since it already has some flags set.

Comment 7

[Kai Liu]

Attachment: Enabling tooltips for bookmarks

Erm, why not do this for all bookmarks?

In fact, all the code necessary to do this already exists--at least for the bookmark folder menus in the bookmark toolbar (extending this to the menubar's bookmarks menu should be trivial).

By changing just two lines of code, bookmark tooltips can be enabled for the bookmarks residing within folders on the bookmark toolbar (see attached screenshot).  I think it looks fine, doesn't present any usability problems, and could be pretty useful.  So, is there any reason why tooltips for bookmarks are currently disabled?  (Am I missing something here?)

Comment 8

[Kai Liu]

Ah, I see that there's a patch in bug 237592 (should this be duped to that?) that does what I did in comment 7...

Comment 10

[Andrés Delfino]

Nominating for blocking‑firefox3.1 now that we have some time.

Comment 11

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

Patch of bug 237592 fix this bug

Comment 13

[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