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new request: distinguish tooltips

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 For example, if you browse inside flickr.com and have visited 5 pages in flickr.com, pressing the "Back to previous site" would take you out of flickr.com to the previous domain visited.
 This saves time from having to go back in history to the previous site, manually.
+== Separate chrome tooltips from site tooltips ==
+The about:config setting for browser.chrome.toolbar_tips governs both the tooltips displayed in Firefox's chrome, when hovering over buttons etc., and the similar textual popups generated by the title attribute of IMG and by the ABBR tag. These should not be so tightly coupled; regular users of FF don't often rely on the tooltips to know which buttons do what (and therefore wish to hide them), but in hiding them these users give up the ability to view pages as originally intended. This can be a pain in situations where an image's title is particularly salient (e.g., when an image serving as a button has an unclear purpose which is revealed via the title attribute), and the outright dismissal of the ABBR tag is senseless.
+This wouldn't be so bad if the identity verification tooltip (seen when hovering over the page icon in the URL bar) didn't block items from being dragged onto a portion of the bookmarks toolbar, but 1) that's a separate bug and 2) this really should be fixed on principle.