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Tooltip bug fixed after 22 years (bikeshed.vibber.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Better late than never I guess?

Geez I just realized many people probably never lived to see this fixed... fuck. Now I'm sad and feeling extra mortal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Most of us are immortal this days. We like to hang out in the deep blue sea

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, I thought that was a feature. I came to rely on it to transcribe long tab titles into my text editor. Is there any way to restore the old behaviour in Firefox? Otherwise I'll have to stick with Firefox 118 or switch web browsers, since Firefox 119 seems to break my longstanding workflow. :(

Any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Hopefully) obviously /s

Thanks for fixing this issue! I didn't even know until today that it affected non-Linux systems as well.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

And here is an example of a Priority 4, Severity 4 bug, and the average time it takes to fix such bugs.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw this in a few applications, I wonder if it's a general bug with shared software code

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not many projects reuse anything from Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Finally! This one has bugged me for so long...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

The real Bugzilla

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I genuinely assumed that was a GTK bug, the more you know

[–] snowe 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I never realized this was Firefox at all. I swear I saw it in other applications.

[–] AnActOfCreation 7 points 1 year ago

Hell I see this in Windows all the time. I think tooltips are hard!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This bug must've been older than millions of Firefox users.

[–] Kuba 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah this bug is 8 Years older than me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

4 older than me. Holy shit now that hits different.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Oh. My. God.

Definitely one of the changes I'll be most appreciative of, that was incredibly annoying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Did they finally fix that?!?! Time to run a few xbps commands!! Why am I so pumped about this? Hopefully this includes the download preview panel, too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Link to Bugzilla

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Never had that problem myself. Now I feel left out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That I would see this day...I can die in peace now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh come on. Enjoy the patch a little first, then go!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

these sticky tooltips, man...

even Windows has a sticky tooltip bug with the system tray since... well, since the system tray exists that isn't resolved (when it's on either side of the monitor)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh.. finally!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn. I have dealt with this for so long that I forgot it was even a bug.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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