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Absolute State of Mozilla: Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827995

BUGZILLA: Tooltips persist in foreground when Firefox is in background

Oh wow, I always just assumed it was somehow my fault. This has been following me for years, over different Windows versions and reinstalls. It didn't happen often, but still regularly enough that I remember it.

Yes! I thought I was going crazy, or was just somehow running a broken installation!


I have always blamed my various linux desktop window managers for that bug, never realizing its always the same culprit :facepalm:

On occasion (a smaller screen) it could be quite annoying as it might interfere with the display of a form or other critical element.

Looking forward to the update and the next 22 years of firefox not just being bugfree but being the impactful application it once was.

:#gaslighter::#gaslighter::#gaslighter::#gaslighter::#gaslighter::#gaslighter:

Interesting, this bug was filed before even the first version of Firefox was ever released -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history. Impressed that they've kept the bug tracker history working for so long.

Did the bug tracker history carry over from Phoenix/Firebird maybe?

This was a bug in the Gecko engine, which was used in Netscape 6 and the Mozilla Suite (Navigator and Communicator) before Firefox was created (in response to Mozilla Suite bloat). Gecko still uses the same Bugzilla bug tracker.

Lmao this bug existed longer than some of you out there :#marseyrofl:

Wow. Thinking about it, there are businesses built, peaked and destroyed in that time frame. :)

Mozilla being one of them.

https://media.giphy.com/media/4FmAj1XiioCVW/giphy.webp


If you're a loser using Firefox here are some alternatives.

Googlomium

Be Brave :marseybraveglow:

Try Arc (MACOS SUPREMACY ONLY)

V-v-v-v-Vivaldi

Gecko

They all suck lmao :marseylaugh:

Weebkit

Safari, duh

Orion

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If you're a loser using Firefox here are some alternatives

Do any of them have anything like tree style tab? If not, then I'm not switching, ever.

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