Hello,

I use Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP1 i386.  I have noticed 2 usability issues with tooltips:

  1. When I point over a task button on the taskbar, the tooltip containing the window title is truncated.  This affects Winamp, for example.  This is a minor issue, but it still bothers me because I do not understand why the tooltip is truncated.  Truncation seems unneccessary to me.
  2. The tooltips time out and disappear.  I hate this because it makes it difficult to read long tooltips.  I use Mozilla Firefox, which uses tooltips for the title attributes of elements, such as links and images.  Currently, these tooltips time out and disappear after 5 seconds.  However, according to the comments in bug 395668, this timeout will eventually be disabled.  Until then, the workaround is to use the No Tooltip Timeout extension.  Tooltip timeouts are a major usability issue for me and, I suspect, many other users, but until now I have worked around the problem instead of taking the time to solve the problem.

For each of my 2 issues, I have 2 questions:

  1. Why does the limitation (for truncation) or behaviour (for timeouts) exist?
  2. How can I solve it?

I do not mind if issue #1 is not solved, but I would really like to solve issue #2 by disabling all tooltip timeouts on Windows.  Is this possible?  Issue #2 has bothered me for years, probably since I started using Windows 95 in the second half of the 1990s.

Thank you,
Brolin Empey