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SkepticalMystic

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Registered: 2013-04-25

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No Tooltips/Hovertext in Chromium

The newest version of Chromium, (35.0.1916.114-1), has broken my hovertext. When mousing over something, for example the comic at www.xkcd.com, a box for the text appears but there is no text. My current GTK theme has the hovertext box appear in grey, but in the newest version, the hovertext box is in yellow with no content. I've changed theme back to default with no change.

Rolling back to 34.0.1847.137-1 resolves the issue, though my profile does not work since it's not the latest version. Surprisingly I've not been able to find anyone else mentioning the issue here or at the Chromium resources, so it may be some interaction with my software.

Any information or ideas would be appreciated.

Rasi

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Re: No Tooltips/Hovertext in Chromium

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smeghead

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Registered: 2014-01-22

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Re: No Tooltips/Hovertext in Chromium

I also have the same problem, so it is not just you.

Version 35.0.1916.114 (270117)

smeghead

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Registered: 2014-01-22

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Re: No Tooltips/Hovertext in Chromium

Been poking around a bit, and there are a whole bunch of bugs on the Chromium bug tracker relating to tooltip and title hover issues.  The bugs that seem most relevant to our problem seem to be fixed in 36, so we might just have to wait it out.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu … ?id=332932
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu … ?id=348194

SkepticalMystic

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Registered: 2013-04-25

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Re: No Tooltips/Hovertext in Chromium

Thanks for the info Smeghead. Guess I'll hope that 36 is pretty soon. For about a day, mine just started working. I reinstalled the newest version to try to see if I could find a work around, and it just worked fine as soon as it was installed. Still had the yellow background, but the text was black and showed up. When I closed it and opened it again, the problem returned. Go figure.