Did they fix it yet?
http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-sept-2015/item/2837-did-they-fix-it-yet

Brian, don't close the issue. For being not a developer, I've done as much as I can.

hum, i've seem this behavior before, but cannot reproduce this on latest staging / 3.6.0 beta 1.

@creative3d Did you tried in 3.6.0 beta 1?

@andrepereiradasilva , no, I've tried on 3.5. Ok, I'll try on 3.6 and report.

@andrepereiradasilva , yes, the same on 3.6. Can you confirm that you have reproduced it too? Because Brian thinks that I'm crazy. Try to hover in and out faster on the same item. Thanks.

no, can't reproduce on chrome 51

I don't think you are crazy and I don't say if there is a big or not. My
comment referred only to your disparaging statement that this bug has
existed for over three years and no one has fixed it.

@andrepereiradasilva damn... I can easily reproduce both on Chrome and Firefox the latest versions... That's too bad...
@brianteeman it wasn't disparaging. Can you reproduce it? Have you tried?

I cannot reproduce it but can confirm that this tooltip behavior occurs sometimes and also for 3.6 in ISIS backend.
Flickering tooltips. Rapidly closing ones. Not opening ones...
Sometimes page reload helps, sometimes window resize, sometimes moving mouse over a preceding tooltip first, sometimes moving mouse in from another direction.
And yes, it exists for a long time now. I am sure because I don't use tooltips anymore for important descriptions but use fields of type spacer instead or modal buttons.

@bertmert yes, yes, your description is very correct. But why can't everybody reproduce it, that' very strange...

The disparaging comments could basically be seen in things like "I and users are just tired of waiting for this fix since Joomla 3.0". Comments like that are borderline excessive and unnecessary. Also, I'm fairly sure this is the first issue opened explicitly about this behavior so the reason you're still waiting for a fix is because nobody's ever reported it.

As for reproducing it, I noticed it this morning only because I was explicitly looking for it. Otherwise, I don't often validate the tooltip behaviors actually work when developing components because I'm expecting them to work fine in the core code where I'm copying most of my scaffolding from.

@mbabker "nobody's ever reported it". The previous attempt to point out the issue was closed the same day (maybe even by Brian, that was disparaging behaviour from my point of view). And before that, it was at the very beginning of J3 and also was ignored and closed or delete, don't know. And I meant no offence. Doesn't matter now.
What is matter is that finally it's noticed ! Hopefully it won't be ignored now. Thanks a lot !

Afaik we're using the tooltips from Bootstrap without any changes. So it may be worth looking for known isuses with Bootstrap tooltips.
it's also the difference between pre Joomla 3.0 tooltips (Mootools based) and post 3.0 (Bootstrap/jQuery tooltips).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bootstrap+tooltip+flicker

I'll look into this as I too have the same issue (Firefox - Windows). When hovering over a link, the tooltip displays and instantly disappears. To get it working, I have to click around the page a bit and then it works.

PR submitted: #11661

Closed as we have a pr.