302972 - phantom scroll bars remain after replying to an email in Gmail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187435

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[David Fedoruk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050731 Camino/0.9a2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050731 Camino/0.9a2+

After replying to an email in Gmail, freuqnently there are phantom scroll bars
left on the screen. This isn't unique to just the reply feature, it sometimes
happens anywhere an email is being closed or sent.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in an email thread, use the quick reply, 
2. wrote amd semd upri email
3. likely there wil be a leftover scoll bar with nothng to scroll. 

Actual Results:  
The Old form is not completely destroyed. (I have a screen shot)

Expected Results:  
I should hve been left without any controls from the last winidow.

Comment 1

[David Fedoruk]

Attachment: screen shot of the latest left over form controls in gmail

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Do you see this in safe mode too? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Dupe of bug 187435?

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

David, have you always seen these phantom scrollbars, or have they "recently"
started appearing?

I'm thinking this might be a "recent" regression like the other scrollbar bug,
rather than a long-standing one like bug 187435.

Comment 5

[David Fedoruk]

This is not a new problem. The last time it was mentioned on the list Mike
Pinkerton told the person who reported it to make a bug report. I guess that
didnt' happen. I waited until I saw it happen again and reported it as a bug. So
its NOT a recent regression.

I have an idea exactly when this occurs. If you re-size the window during or
after you've just sent an email, then resize the window that's left. This
occurs. That happened again to me last night. I think I have a screeen shot if
that would help.

DF

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I didn't do any window resizing at all and saw it.  I also don't remember seeing
it at the end of June, which is when I last sent messages with the Gmail account
I have access to.  I can't acess the list archives right now to check when it
was reported there.

This also doesn't happen in DeerPark, which is one reason why I don't think it's
bug 187435.

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Definitely not a dupe of bug 187435 because the page specified doesn't contain
the CSS: visibility: hidden.

Comment 8

[David Fedoruk]

Is this related in any way to Google text area not resizing properly when a new
window with text area is created when replying to a threaded conversation? I
looked for that bug beause I'm sure I'd seen that one reported.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Well, I just checked the June 19 build, and the bug was there, which means
either I'm remembering things wrong (possible) or Google's changed its code
since then (also possible).

So maybe it is bug 187435 after all (you can't tell exactly what styles Google
has coded the page to contain).

Comment 10

[David Fedoruk]

Attachment: leftover "sent email" and missplaced scroll bars

Comment 11

[David Fedoruk]

Additional information about attachment id 191450:

I just noticed something else tonight. I am not sure if its a Camino
bug or a Gmail bug. I replied to an email by clicking "more options"
then cliking "reply" there instead of using reply at the bottom of the
email. This was in a on of those long conversations. When I sent the
enail, my original remained on my screeen as if I could still edit it.
I checked to see if it had been sent by sneaking around to anouth open
gmail window and it was in my sent box. So the email was sent and the
original was not destroyed when it was put in my sent box. I have some
screen shots, but I'm working on an iBook so the shots are in two parts
and don't show much other thean an email finished email.

I will include a screen shot of what i mean. I'm not sure if all this
is part of one bug or multiple bugs, but it all occurs in Gmail not
infrequently. Just a note about the screen shot...  those scroll bar
out of place appeared after I sent the email.

Comment 12

[Adam Guthrie]

David, please keep it to one issue per bug. If you'd like to file another bug
for the second issue, please do so. 

I find it odd that this hasn't been reported before. Plenty of Camino users use
Gmail each day and haven't reported this. This brings me back to my initial
question of whether you still see this in safe mode. If you could create a new
profile and test this out, that would be great. This will confirm that it is a
bug and is not extension/theme-related. 

Comment 13

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> I find it odd that this hasn't been reported before. Plenty of Camino users use
> Gmail each day and haven't reported this. 

Because not all Camino users report bugs.  It was discussed on the Camino list
on 27 June (and apparently prior) but never filed.

> question of whether you still see this in safe mode. If you could create a new
> profile and test this out, that would be great. This will confirm that it is a
> bug and is not extension/theme-related. 

Camino doesn't have extensions and themes (at least not in the same way Fx does,
where they might interfere with page content).  I've mentioned twice already in
this bug that I see it, too.  I see it with a fresh profle.  It's a bug.  The
only reason it hasn't been confirmed yet is that Samuel and I were trying to
figure out whether it was a dupe of bug 187435 or some other bug or not first (I
was hoping Simon might be able to tell; widget issues are a bit far afield for me).

Comment 14

[David Fedoruk]

(In reply to comment #12)
> David, please keep it to one issue per bug. If you'd like to file another bug
> for the second issue, please do so. 
> 
My intention was not to add it as a bug here but to ask if it were a part of the
same issue; that issue is corruption of mail forms in Gmail. They look the same
but only an experienced programmer can tell if they are related to the same
problems.

df

Comment 15

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

After reading through the comments/testcases in dupes of bug 187435 and doing a
little poking at the Gmail page with the barely-functional DOMInspector in
DeerPark, I'm fairly certain this is a dupe of bug 187435.  Why it only appears
in Camino is still a question, but there's at least one other Camino-only bug
duped, too.

Comment 11 is probably a caching or refresh issue (maybe similar to bug
301325?); bug 187435 is specifically about the way we draw scrollbars.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187435 ***

Comment 16

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Why it only appears in Camino is still a question

Camino has different native scrollbar code (Cocoa, not Carbon), so suffers worse
from phantom scrollbars.