2016538 - The scroll bar should appear in about:translations for very large texts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Translations, defect)

Description

[Ciprian Georgiu, Desktop QA]

Attachment: screenshot with the issue

Found in

• latest Nightly 149.0a1

Affected versions

• latest Nightly 149.0a1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Win 11, macOS 26 and Ubuntu 24.04

Steps to reproduce

1. Navigate to about:translations.
2. Paste a really long text into the left box.

Expected result

• The scroll bar appears on the right side of the area so the user can properly scroll inside the box.

Actual result

• No scroll bars appear on the right side of the area.

Regression range

• Not a regression.

Comment 1

[Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]]

During initial discussions with accessibility team, we decided to remove the per-textarea scroll bars in favor of allowing the textareas to grow and shrink dynamically, with the content.

In the horizontal orientation, the textareas are expected to maintain a uniform height between the two, scaling to the maximum content size of either side.

in vertical orientation, both textareas should only grow as much as they need to fit their own content.

The single scroll bar remains only for the page itself.

We also decided to remove the textarea resizers with this behavior, even though I think some of the Figma design still show them.