1407770 - Activity Stream: permanent visible vertical scroll bar

Status: UNCONFIRMED

Description

[Franck (Wip)]

Attachment: permanent visible vertical scroll bar

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171011100133

Steps to reproduce:
 - start Firefox with a new profile
 - create a new tab
 - optional: on small-resolution screen, remove some components using "New Tab Preferences"

Actual results:
 there is a permanently visible but disabled vertical scroll bar on the left of the window

Expected results:
 there should not be any scroll bar if not needed

Comment 2

[shaweglea]

the solution has already been pointed out in "duplicate" bug 1418515 -- why does this keep getting pushed back?

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Because it's unclear if the fix regresses other bugs, e.g., bug 1400920

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/3950#issuecomment-359193323

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Potentially a fix is to position the page content independent of whether there's a scrollbar or not. The main thing on the right edge is the pref gear, which could probably just shift over a little? Or perhaps allow the gear to shift when a scrollbar appears but the rest of the page content somehow stays fixed when the scrollbar appears/disappears.

Comment 7

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

Wouldn't it be possible to use overflow: hidden; until the page is fully loaded ?

Comment 8

[Djfe]

why until the page is fully loaded?
the problem exists on a fully loaded page

Comment 9

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

(In reply to Tim Nguyen :ntim from comment #7)

Wouldn't it be possible to use overflow: hidden; until the page is fully loaded ?

Let me clarify. Why can't we hide the scrollbar until the page is loaded and use overflow: auto; (display the scrollbar as needed) when the page is loaded ?

Would solve bug 1400920 and this too.

Comment 10

[Will]

We want the UI to be clean, so this issue is worth fixing (and the scroll bar sticks out like a sore thumb if the user has a dark theme, maybe this only applies to Windows though?). Also, quite a few users have complained about this https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ap0ly2/why_is_there_a_dead_scrollbar_on_the_new_tab_page/

Comment 11

[Will]

I don't mean to annoy or waste anyone's time, just coming back to this one because it's highly visible to users (especially if they have a dark theme on Windows). To anyone reading this, if you're too busy to take this bug, can you ask someone else that might want to get this fixed? It's been open for too long considering how visible it is to users