851358 - Hovering over a link should show the location of the link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 904932

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Browser, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Using Firefox in Win8 Metro with my mouse, I noticed that there is no place in the UI for me to see what the location of a link is before I click on it.

From discussion on #windev,
<yuan_> jaws: nice catch! usually "tap and hold" on touchscreen is considered "hover over", also an intention of "learn more". what we could do is to show a preview box next to the touch point when the users tap and hold a link. 

I think we should show something in the bottom-left of the screen (bottom-right for RTL) since it is where the user has been trained to look and it is less likely to cover important page content.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

story?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I don't think we need this for v1.