175517 - No horizontal (or vertical) scrollbar in JS console

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

BUILD: 2002-09-29-21 and later linux trunk builds.

BUG NOT PRESENT IN: 2002-09-28-21 and earlier linux trunk builds

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1)  Turn off string JS warnings
2)  Restart Mozilla
3)  Load this bug
4)  Click the URL field
5)  Open the JS console
6)  Attempt to read the whole error message

Note the lack of a horizontal scrollbar....

In some cases the appearance of a vertical scrollbar will fix things, which is
why the convoluted steps...

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

the other day i saw the JS console open with much content but lacking a
*vertical* scrollbar

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

T

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Confirming this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b)
Gecko/20021016
To Comment 1: saw that also today with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

sorry for the spam (hit the wrong button)

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

2002101808 Mac OS 9.1

I've managed to not get a horizontal scrollbar a couple of times.

1. Restart Mozilla (I have the default homepage)
2. Open JS console
3. type/copy som garbage in the console field like
javascript:(blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla)
5. Click on "Evaluate"
4. A *few* times - no horizontal scrollbar

Another way to reproduce (more often):
1. Restart Mozilla
2. Open JS console
3. Type javascript:(blabla) in the console's field a couple (two) of  times.
4. Hold down the mouse at the lower right corner and drag to shrink
5. Notice the lack of a horizontal scrollbar - look at the attached screenshot below


But what occurs much more often is the lack of a *vertical* scrollbar:
1. Restart Mozilla (I have the default homepage)
2. Open JS console
3. type javascript:(blabla) in the console's field
4. Click on "Evaluate" several times and notice the lack of a verical scrollbar.
 

Comment 5

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Attachment: Screenshot - JSconsole with no horizontal scrollbar

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Yeah, but when you click where the scrollbar should be, the content of the JS
console moves, so this must be some UI thing.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

I just saw this bug again on Linux:

-Both horizontal and vertical scrollbar was missing.
-I could *not* scroll by mouse-wheeling or clicking in white area where scrollbars  
 should have been. 
-Clicking menu-items on top of window had no effect
-Right-clicking brought up a context menu, but the menu-items were unusable.

Closing the JS console and re-opening it seemed to cure the bug this time.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 178205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Karl Palsson]

Just opened the JS console for the first time, and saw lots and lots of
messages, scroll wheel worked, but no vert scroll bar.

Cleared, closed, and reopend, then evaluated "bleh" multiple times and a scroll
window appeared.

*shrugs*
Cheers,
Karl P

Comment 10

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 182768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 183742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212]

Confirming bug: (this is a one time observation...)
*opened JS.C:
 *no v.sb, but clicking on the empty space moves the output.
 *no h.sb, no matter how narrow I make the window.
*closed and reopened the JS.C:
 *v.sb is there now.
 *h.sb appears when the window is made narrow enough.

Comment 13

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212]

This time, I had another case than comment 12:
1. Start Mozilla (and Messenger)
2. (work with it)
3. First opening of JS.C

Space was reserved for v.sb and h.sb, but they did not appear, and clicking on
them was useless, resizing too.

Closing and reopening the JS.C cured the problem.

Comment 14

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

2nd time that I forgot:

I suggest to reduce Severity from Normal to Minor;
Unless someone says that closing & reopening is not a workaround in some cases.

Comment 15

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

And...

Please, move Hardware+OS from PC+Linux to All+All !!

Comment 16

[Dan Tobias]

I've experienced the lack of scrollbars (horizontal or vertical) in the JS
console in build 2003010308 with WinXP.

Comment 17

[[e-mail]]

I see this on Linux, (with the close/reopen workaround), but not on Windows 9x.

Comment 18

[earthsound]

Mozilla 1.3b, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030210, Windows XP, SP1

Closing/reopening workaround confirmed for XP

Comment 19

[Sebastian Redl]

This seems to occur whenever the window changes in a way that (unchanging)
content which previously fitted doesn't fit anymore.

I get this with 2003021008 on Win2k/SP2:
1) Set the filter to "Errors".
2) Generate some warnings (e.g. multiple references to document.all)
3) Set the filter to "All" or "Warnings"

Comment 20

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312]

Confirming my comment 12:
 *(Worked with Navigator/Mail&News/etc)
 *Opened J.S. Console
 *both sb: are not drawn, but space is reserved, and clicking can move the display.
  (The display is too large and long to fit at one time.)
 *(Workaround: Close & reOpen)

Reply to comment 17:
 *I do have this bug on my W95.

Comment 21

[Brian Polidoro]

This isn't a problem anymore right?

Comment 22

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Yes, looks like wfm.