Link title attribute incorrectly remembered

[Lars Yencken]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Suppose you have a link with a title attribute (call this Link A), and you place your mouse over it. After a moment the text within the title attribute pops up in a yellow box. All fine so far. Then place your mouse over any other link which doesn't have a title attribute. The title from Link A is displayed, no matter which link you mouse over.

The real bug is displaying a link title at all, when none is specified by the link. The manifestation is that it displays the title from whatever link was the last one you moused-over which had a title attribute.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 6 10:41:58 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic x86_64

[Lupe Christoph (lupe)]

For me, the contents of the title tag are always displayed a short while after I stop moving the cursor. Initially, when I haven't positioned the cursor over an object with a title tag yet, a small empty box is displayed. This is very annoying. I'm checking on firefox-3.0 about weekly to see if this is fixed. Now I'm subscribing to this bug to save myself the effort ;-)

I'm attaching a small HTML file that allows to reproduce this behavior. I copied /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png in the directory with the HTML file.

[Anthony D (adunaway)]

I'm getting this too, but on Vista32. Firefox 3.0.5 -- Google Toolbar and IE-Tab are my only Addons.

It's driving me crazy and I thought I was the only one. Lupe: Your html file *sometimes* will duplicate it for me, but I have yet to be able to consistently duplicate the problem even with that.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

[Lupe Christoph (lupe)]

On Sunday, 2009-05-10 at 16:25:39 -0000, Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete

Checked with 3.0.10 - the bug is fixed.

Thank you for checking,
Lupe Christoph
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[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.