Where are the tool tips displaying?

With mine they are below the shaft of the arrow and do not interfere.

Try resetting the workspace (window/workspace)

Saw one other posts like this in Photoshop forum a week ago.  Suggestion was to turn off tool tips there in preferences/interface

Have you tried turning off tool tip in Photoshop to see if it affects Bridge?  (preferences/interface)

I also scoured the Bridge prefs again and could only find a tool tips checkbox for thumbs only.

 

That checkbox is the one you need (Thumbnails/ details / and then uncheck the 'show tooltips') and yes you are right, it is not very obvious...

I'm gonna report it as a bug.

 

That won't help you because it isn't one. Like Curt I have no problem in this behavior, when checking this the tooltips show as expected without covering the buttons, when deselecting the option there are no tooltips.

So the fault must be on your set up.

Can't see on your screenshot if you are on Windows or Mac (looks like mine so maybe Mac?)

First try to reset preferences for Bridge with holding down option key (ctrl on Windows) when starting Bridge and choose reset preferences.

If this does not help please provide details about configuration and version numbers.

I still don't think it's the right checkbox to deactivate interface tool tips as it's in the "Thumbnails" sections of prefs. (And when I switch that on I get tool tips for thumbnails, when I switch it off I do not get tool tips for thumbnails. But the interface tool tips are always consistent.)

 

Well, I'm again afraid. But this time for my big mouth...

You are very right, I did have a long delay on my machine before the tooltips showed and having the checkbox set to on it seemed directly appearing.

As there are many inconsistencies in Bridge (in fact throughout the whole Suite) this one is very big. Don't have a good alternative short name for it but calling 'show metadata when hovering over' 'show tooltips' is really a very bad approach

The version is CS6 and I'm on a 2009 Mac Pro using 10.6.8 if that matters any.

Thanks, it always matters, especially since this has become a general forum with both Windows and Mac. Different OS and different versions (including detail version number) gives more insight in possible solutions or advice (update etc)

Also, I noticed that if I make Bridge CS6 smaller than the monitor window, then the tool tips over the buttons do not appear over the buttons anymore, but under them instead. The tool tips seem to be set to appear below the mouse pointer.  When Bridge is maximized and the bottom of the Bridge window touches the bottom of the monitor there is no place else for the tool tips to go, so they get pushed up... and cover the buttons.

 

I always have the Dock in sight hence pressing the green button to enlarge my Bridge window to full screen leaves a small free space and as you well discovered has not your problematic behavior with tooltips over buttons.

I would think Bridge should be able to detect the end of the screen, obviously it does because it knows to move the tool tips up so they don't appear "off screen".

 

They should use this detection to determine if the tool tips should appear above or below (or away from the screen edge) the mouse pointer.

 

Agreed

I'll stop calling it a bug and switch it to "oversight". Bottom line though is the tool tips still block the buttons and shield them from being clicked.

Oversight is the correct word, but besides the above described improvement they really should get rid of the name tooltips in thumbnails and add an option to really hide or show all tooltips as you would expect in a proper application

Thanks for staying tuned and clarify!

While the Bridge team tries to read most of this forum it might be wise to make a feature request for this, are you willing to do so since this is your discovery?

Not sure it is a "problem", but more a function of window,screen size.

In the CS6 beta froum one user reported the problem that the Edit dropdown window covered the the toolbar above ( Edit Image Layer Select View) when she clicked on it. 

Turns out like you she had an enlarged window and Photoshop had to reposition the drop down window as it was longer than the screen.

Program  moved the drop down box up so it could be read on the screen.  This then covered the toolbar icons.

The Adobe programmers solution was to reduce magnification and thing would fall in place.