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Hyperlink tooltips are flaky, don't always appear

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#11,735 opened on Nov 11, 2021

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One more random data point in case someone finds it useful: I seem to be in an in-between world where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It seems that if I move the mouse in from the left side of the screen on the same line as the link, I usually get no tooltip. If the mouse comes from the bottom (or otherwise goes over non-link text) before hitting the link, I do get the tooltip. Even coming from the left, I still get it maybe 10% of the time (estimated).

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Investigate the tooltip display logic, focusing on how mouse enter/leave events are handled for hyperlinks. Check if there is a timing dependency or if the tooltip is suppressed when the mouse enters from a specific direction (e.g., from the same line as the link). Look at the code that determines whether to show the tooltip, and verify if the condition for showing it is too strict or race condition prone.
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