640388 - URL displayed when mouseover a link is cut off

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 632634

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

If there is a long url, it simply ends with "..." when there is plenty of room to show it.  There is no way to know where a url goes without clicking it unless I copy it and paste it somewhere.  It should detect the screen width or at least expand to show the whole thing (multi-lined if needed) after hovering for a couple seconds.  This is one of the reasons I still use FF, Chrome  did that as well, and it sucks, especially for php devs.
(sorry if it's a dupe, tried to search but got "service unavailable" message)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mouse over long link.
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Actual Results:  
Can't see where it goes.

Expected Results:  
Can see where it goes.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of Firefox 4? Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[Adam]

Yes, it still occurs with FF4.  I haven't tried nightly.

Also since it lines up with the right side of the screen, it's very difficult to compare URLs where the only difference is towards the end, the entire url jumps around making it confusing.  It should be left aligned, so if the first 80% of the url is the same, it doesn't move so much.

Comment 3

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Please provide a sample page where this occurs

Comment 4

[Adam]

Attachment: An example of a long link that doesn't show up in the link popup

Long links display the beginning and end of the link, but do not display the middle text in the link.  Even if the window is plenty wide enough, it will not go all the way across, only 50%.  It should go at least the width of the window.  If the link is longer than the width, it needs to wrap around.

Comment 5

[Adam]

It seems the url is set to a maximum of 50% of the window width.
There are cases where the url could be longer than the width of the window, in that case it should wrap around.  Optionally, it could only wrap around, fully expanding, after hovering for a couple seconds.  That could become exceedingly annoying if there are lots of links to look at, so an advanced option or something maybe to always to that, or simply always do that.