141495 - Turning off gfxscrollbars breaks text entry

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Johan Walles]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020412
Debian/0.9.9-6
BuildID:    0.9.9

If you add the following line to your prefs.js...

user_pref("nglayout.widget.gfxscrollbars", true);

... and then type an URL long enough to force the URL field to start scrolling,
GTK+ scroll bars will appear, hiding the text you are typing.

Changing the pref to "false" resolves the problem.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the following line to your prefs.js:

user_pref("nglayout.widget.gfxscrollbars", true);

2. Start Mozilla.
3. Type a *long* URL, so that the URL field has to start scrolling.


Actual Results:  The URL field is hidden behind two GTK+ scroll bars.

Expected Results:  The URL field should just have scrolled to the side.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

I think bug 141976 and bug 141394 are dups of this.
May be older.

Comment 2

[Patrick Lay]

*** Bug 141976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

the line pref("nglayout.widget.gfxscrollbars", true); seems to have been in
all.js since September 1999, so there should be no need to duplicate it in
prefs.js.. 

What happens if you remove the line alltogether? (Instead of setting it to false)

Comment 4

[Johan Walles]

If I remove the line, things work fine as well.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

Snooped around in bug 35996:
I wonder if some of the explanation for this can be found in bug 35996 comment 20
Perhaps related:  bug 121440, where native scrollbar behaviour changed.
(March 31st this year)

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

reporter (Johan Walles): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of
mozilla (for example, 1.1beta)? if so, please comment again with details. if
not, please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 7

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

no answer.