1623652 - [about:addons] Match scrollable main-content area with about:preferences

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

The scroll bars in RTL should be on the left side of the scrollable container. Bug 1593840 is tracking that the top-level scrollbar is on the wrong side of the page, but it might be good to work around this issue in the interim.

STR

1. Set Firefox to RTL mode (`intl.l10n.pseudo = "bidi" should work)
2. Open about:addons
3. Shrink the vertical height so the sidebar will scroll (after bug 1525178)

Expected results:

• Main page scroll bar is on the extreme left
• Sidebar scroll bar is on the left of the sidebar

Actual results:

• Main scroll bar is on the extreme right
• Sidebar scroll bar is on the left, as expected

Comment 1

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

Ideally bug 1593840 will get fixed and nothing will need to be done here. If that bug can't be resolved quickly then we can work around it by moving the scrollbar onto the main content rather than the body.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

Attachment: Sidebar.gif

Bogdan's screencast from bug 1625979 comment 4. This shows that this is also an inconsistency in LTR between about:preferences and about:addons.

Comment 4

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

This was originally filed as an RTL issue, but we see an inconsistency to about:preferences as well. I think this makes the case for moving the scrollable area to match which should fix the RTL issue.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is P3 (Backlog,) indicating it has been triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to S3 (normal.)