261170 - iframe scroll bars jumping/appearing/disappearing at certain browser width

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[abittner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

i just visited the page
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackId=aa9ee66e-102e-492b-adc9-7e90e808cd2d

there is an iframe with a discussion below the main bug page:
"Discussions About: asp:Menu control only works in IE"

this frame becomes "alive" if i set the firefox browser to a certain width
displaying this whole page. the iframe suddenly develops a vertical scrollbar,
the text inside the iframe gets displayed differently (word wrap) since it has
less space due to the scrollbar, then the scrollbar disappears a fraction of a
second later and the text gets wrapped again differently. and this goes on
"forewer" (well i didnt see it to go away....)

experiment with the width of your firefox browser window to get this effect.
although i have quite a large screen over here (1600x1200, maybe you need some
wide display area, or whatever. dont know....

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackId=aa9ee66e-102e-492b-adc9-7e90e808cd2d
2. resize your browser width and experiment with it til you get the iframe
vertical scrollbar madness...
3. if you accidentally have the correct firefox width the "animation" might
start right away.... 
4. see the action ;)

Actual Results:  
vertical scrollbar inside the iframe appears, disappears, appears, disappears,
appears, disappears....

Expected Results:  
iframe to display just normally and staying calm/stable

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem with a current _trunk_ build?

Comment 2

[abittner]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this a problem with a current _trunk_ build?

one question for the non-devs, what is does trunk and other special dev terms
exactly mean exactly? is there a faq/primer for this anywhere? or is trunk a
general cvs/development term?

thanks.

Comment 3

[abittner]

hi there, just installed the firefox 0.10.1 hotfix build, but the
frame/scrollbar-jumping weirdness is still present.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

thanks and cheers.

Comment 4

[javier]

i wanted to re-confirm this bug is also in WindowsXP, but not in my Firefox (v
0.9.3) running on FreeBSD 5.2.1

Comment 5

[abittner]

here is a video of the jumping iframe scrollbars

http://www.stuwo.net/temp/firefox-iframe-alive.avi
[4 566 418 bytes]

Comment 6

[abittner]

the jumping scrollbars are still alive and present with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026
Firefox/1.0RC1

Comment 7

[abittner]

still jumping with rc2

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103
Firefox/1.0RC2

will anybody actually take care of this, or am i talking to myself here all
alone? does it make any sense to send bugreports to mozilla at all?

or should i set this to "confirm bug (change status to new)" ?

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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