When the slider frame gets notified about the max/min pos change and notices that the curpos is not between it, it scrolls the scrollframe.
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When the slider frame gets notified about the max/min pos change in nsSliderFrame::AttributeChanged and notices that the curpos is not between it, it scrolls the scrollframe.