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I have always blamed my various linux desktop window managers for that bug, never realizing its always the same culprit :facepalm:

On occasion (a smaller screen) it could be quite annoying as it might interfere with the display of a form or other critical element.

Looking forward to the update and the next 22 years of firefox not just being bugfree but being the impactful application it once was.



I will keep on blaming the window managers, because I have certainly seen it outside Firefox. And Linux.


I see it on Winforms applications too.


Excel showed me tooltips’ shadows on other desktops. Took me a few minutes to figure it out!


It also happened on Windows and continues to happen with some other applications across operating systems. There's no one specific component or GUI layer to blame.


I think I have seen it also with LibreOffice.


It happens elsewhere. I notice it a lot with DBeaver.


For me it regularly happens with Chrome on Fedora/GNOME/X.Org.


i had the bug in other gtk applications so i blamed gtk or gnome :(

Apparently it can be fixed by the application




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