420579 - Use tooltips in tab bar navigating arrows

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008030203 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008030203 Minefield/3.0b4pre

The arrows at the left and right of the tabs (when they are too much to show at once) should have tooltips like: Show left tabs, Show right tabs.

Right now, no tooltip is shown.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

These controls shouldn't have tooltips, similar to how the arrow buttons on scroll bars do not have tool tips.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #1)
> These controls shouldn't have tooltips, similar to how the arrow buttons on
> scroll bars do not have tool tips.
> 

True, but scroll bars don't hide content. The tab bar does; and even if a naitve widget does not provide a tooltip, tabs are so important to Fx browsing, that _our_ arrows should have it.

Comment 3

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

I agree with Delfino. Scroll bars doesn't have a tooltip simply because them use is common and self-evident.