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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.


Every non-native UI toolkit seems to have ever-so-slightly buggy tooltip behavior.


Yeah this happens a lot when the DOM changes and the app loses the track of the tooltip so it can no longer dispose of it when you navigate away from the target.


Imagine how much money Mozilla could have made over the last 22 years if only they'd sold ad space in the stuck tooltip! They should monetized their own bugs, before somebody else does.


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


Same! I thought it was just me, happened on all of my machines, Linux and Windows


Same on macOS for at least a few years.




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