[Linux] Tooltips from Edge on Wayland create a separate window which is destroyed immediately

Question

Here's a video of what happens: https://youtu.be/Xz_b2czcaNU

Right is chromium, left is edge. On chromium, the tooltip appears without issues. On edge, the tooltip wants to create its own window. I'm on a tiling window manager which means that new windows will try to organize themselves by taking space from other windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager). Here, the popup wants to take space of the currently focused edge window, causing the first flicker you see. It doesn't always try to take space because the tooltip popup is often destroyed very quickly. The next couple times, the tooltip never appears but focus is stolen for a split second. You can see the focus steal happening when the window border changes color, which indicates focus changes to another window and then goes back.

This only started happening about a month ago I believe, before that tooltips worked fine. I can't downgrade to previous versions of Edge because those versions now seem to crash on startup... I think v144 or earlier worked fine but I can't verify that.

This is happening on multiple systems, on various wayland tiling window managers (Hyprland and Cosmic DE), on both Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Arch Linux.

PS there's no tag for Linux so I just picked "Microsoft Edge development" instead.

Answer 1

Hi zjeffer,
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I really wish I could assist you directly on this issue. However, the behavior you're experiencing is tied to back‑end systems and service functionality, and unfortunately, we don't have the authority or access required to investigate or make changes at that level.

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Thank you for your understanding, and I hope the support team can resolve this for you soon.