1584771 - About:Preferences in FF 69 include a non-scrolling sidebar.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1610081

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement, P5)

Description

[MarjaE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 Waterfox/56.2.14

Steps to reproduce:

I needed to change pdf handling preferences. I went to About:Preferences.

Actual results:

I have to scroll down to reach About:Preferences > General > Applications, but while the main section scrolls, the left sidebar does not.

The visual sheering between a scrolling page, and non-scrolling sidebars, backgrounds, etc. to one or both sides, is one of my migraine triggers. It's even worse than with top bars/headers.

I doubt I'm the only one affected, but don't know the prevalence.

Expected results:

Either (a) no non-scrolling elements, or (b) a top bar (without animation), or (c) a much narrower sidebar (without text at right angles to the sheer), or (d) a wider gap between scrolling and non-scrolling elements, could help.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Hi MarjaE,

Thanks for reporting this. If you have a moment, would you mind posting a screenshot of what your about:preferences looks like so that we can get a sense of your display resolution and default zoom settings when you experience this?

Comment 3

[MarjaE]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2019-09-30 at 11.28.58 AM.png

Firefox prefs, maximized but not full-screen.

Comment 4

[MarjaE]

Also page up and page down aren't working.

Comment 5

[MarjaE]

Also about:addons