1100622 - Scroll bar is hard to find in devtools

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect, P3)

Description

[Jim Michaels]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20141116004002

Steps to reproduce:

about line 646 of time-funcs.js in http://Jesusnjim.com/calculators/time-diff.html any long line that needs scrolling
look for hard-to-find horizontal scroll bar
hover mouse over a variable on same line (watch offer activates)
try to scroll


Actual results:

scroll and watch offer stuff both work at same time, wondering if these will conflict. hope not. h scroll hard to see, didn't know it was there until today. theme is low contrast and darkish, making display hard to read, I have to squint up close to monitor.


Expected results:

lines and scroll should be separate, dark theme should be light theme with standard high contrast.

Comment 1

[Eddy Bruel [:ejpbruel]]

I'm not sure if this is an issue we should address this or not. Brian, what is your opinion?

Comment 2

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

Jim, can you please post a screenshot of what you are seeing?  Also, are you seeing this with the light theme, dark theme, or both?

Comment 3

[Jim Michaels]

I don't see thgis anymore. must have gotten fixed. it was really strange.
dark theme. light theme works fine and has normal scroll bars. the scroll bars in dark theme are in a layer over the code. looks interesting visually, but hard to mouseover since they are so thin and you can't select the text in the layer behind the scrollbars.

Comment 4

[Jim Michaels]

oops. yes, I do see this, sorry for confusing message. ignore the first line. in comment 3.

Comment 5

[Jim Michaels]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/38cee0nkkduyk8z/debugger-scrollbars-dark-theme.png?dl=0
works OK. kind of difficult to discern the horizontal scrollbar though, the text selection color overrides the scrollbar color.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Jim Michaels from comment #5)
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/38cee0nkkduyk8z/debugger-scrollbars-dark-theme.
> png?dl=0
> works OK. kind of difficult to discern the horizontal scrollbar though, the
> text selection color overrides the scrollbar color.

please attach images and other files to bugs, so that future generations can have full context of the details :)

Comment 7

[Jim Michaels]

that was an attached image, on dropbox.

Comment 8

[Jim Michaels]

Attachment: debugger-scrollbars-dark-theme.png

reposted as attachment

Comment 10

[arni2033]

Please confirm that this annoying bug is indeed a desired user experience.

Comment 11

[Jens]

Scrolling without wheelmouse always sucks. I opened Bug 1263105 to use <shift>+mousewheel for horizontal scrolling which would really mitigate the issue that scrollbar(s) are hard to find in devtools (because (good!) they are small due to tiny space available).

Comment 12

[Tom Tromey :tromey]

There's a thread in discourse about the scrollbars:
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/scrollbar-differences-between-light-and-dark-themes/13403/10
I don't think it arrived at a conclusion though.

Comment 13

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

Closing this as it is related to the old debugger.