Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by kgeist on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:13AM (#37828726)

There was a similar Windows bug when a tooltip in the notification area (systray) wouldn't disappear no matter what. I first found the bug in Windows XP, and then witnessed it in Vista, in Windows 7, Windows 10. It was my ritual to check if it's fixed yet when upgrading to a new version of Windows. It never was. Since then I moved to Linux and now I don't know if it's fixed or not.

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by klyrs on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:25AM (#37828784)

Don't make Raymond come over there... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030910-00/?p=42...

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by afterburner on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:16AM (#37829037)

Well then what the heck does systray.exe come from? Is it not "system tray"? If not, then what? And if so, then what does the tray refer to?

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by klyrs on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:14PM (#37834052)

According to the article, systray.exe puts some icons into the notification area. Somewhat akin to calling a bus stop Lee because Lee uses that bus stop?

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by olddustytrail on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:21PM (#37835570)

I think you missed the point. Why isn't the process called noticons.exe then? Why is it called systray.exe? What does the "systray" refer to?

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by ss64 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @04:13AM (#37829646)

A thing about language is that nobody controls it, not even Microsoft, if everyone calls it the System Tray as they have done for 30 years, it is the System Tray.

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by Zekio on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:18AM (#37829995)

does it just mean that "System Tray" and "Notification Area" have become synonyms?

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by autoexec on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:35PM (#37839593)

> A thing about language is that nobody controls it, not even Microsoft

Even Microsoft calls it the system tray (see as an example https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/a...)

That guy's got a problem with his entire company, and their documentation. If he can't get over it, he should clean house first and only then try to police what the rest of the world calls it. As long as MS insists that it's the system tray, people are going to call it that no matter what his team wishes it were called instead. Renaming systray.exe would be a good first step.

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by alaxapta7 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:26AM (#37829400)

Same, although I haven't seen this one for a while now. One way to fix the misbehaving explorer (which start menu, tray and others are part of) is to simply kill it and start it over from the task manager. Some applications failed to re-create their tray icons after this, but either all of them fixed it, or it got somehow fixed in Windows.

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Re:Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years by Tigress8780 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @04:13AM (#37829644)

This still happens on my Windows 11 machines (the tooltip stays there unless you move the mouse over the same icon again), but only to a small number of applications. Makes me wonder if they are using a different set of API to set up their tray icons.

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