(Resolved) F 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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kukla
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(Resolved) F 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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But do display in Safe Mode. Have gone through each of my extensions and disabled them one by one, but tooltips still don't display.

Seeing this when I hover over entry in Safe Mode, from calls and messages at Verizon.

https://i.postimg.cc/hjsvjKZ9/VZ-tooltip.png

This tooltip does display in the 78.12 with the exact same extensions. Have disabled Hardware Acceleration and am using the same theme in the 90 as in the 78.12

No idea what else to try.
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morat
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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Maybe your userChrome.css and userContent.css files are causing the issue.

More info on Safe Mode
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/diagnose- ... nced-users

Safe Mode disables userChrome.js hacks as well.

More info on userChrome.js hacks: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14854175
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kukla
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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morat wrote:Maybe your userChrome.css and userContent.css files are causing the issue.

About Safe Mode
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/diagnose- ... nced-users
Lots of customizations present in the 90 but not in the 78.12. Will temporarily remove the entire Chrome folder and test.
kukla
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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EDIT: Yep, shows with Chrome folder removed. That's going to be the devil to track down. Besides a putting a reasonably uncomplicated CSS in the userChrome.css, to bring the tabs bar back below, and anticipating the removal of the ability to disable Proton in the upcoming 91, copied over a bunch of stuff that works with Proton fully enabled, but which I don't really understand. Trial and error would probably take me weeks.
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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Try using @-moz-document to further restrict the scope.

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/* Firefox userChrome.css */

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

@-moz-document url-prefix("chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml") {
  ...
}

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/* Firefox userContent.css */

@-moz-document url-prefix("about:addons") {
  ...
}
CSS customizations leak to dialogs and websites
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3077528
kukla
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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In fact, staring me right in the face, was

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/*** Remove all tooltips ***/
tooltip {
  display: none !important;
}
I have absolutely no idea why I put that in, or where I got that from, but after removing it - no-brainer - tooltips started displaying in the 90. Took less than a minute, not weeks.

And thanks very much morat for the idea to look in the userChrome.css. Without that, I never would have tried looking there, and been struggling with this forever.
kukla
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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Discovered why I was using that tooltips css: that was to remove the tooltip on the tab close button. Wondering what the CSS would be to just disable that particular item without disabling all tooltips?

https://i.postimg.cc/bJR4KQQp/Screen-Sh ... -16-PM.png
kukla
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Re: FF 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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Solved:

about:config -> browser.chrome.toolbar_tips -> set to false

Only appears to affect the annoying and unnecessary tab close button, not the tooltip on hover as shown in my first post.

Found here, from 2013

https://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/09/disab ... s-firefox/
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Re: (Resolved) F 90 Tooltips Not displaying

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Thread marked "Resolved" per OP's post.
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