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Tooltip bug fixed after 22 years (bikeshed.vibber.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months 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] 50 points 11 months 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] 33 points 11 months ago

Nice reference of https://www.xkcd.com/1172/

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Not many projects reuse anything from Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

The real Bugzilla

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah this bug is 8 Years older than me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Oh. My. God.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Link to Bugzilla

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

Oh.. finally!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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