370348 - When you page down, an arrow should point to the place you should resume reading

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Spiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Bug forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/392187 :

When you use the spacebar to scroll down a page in firefox, it would
be great if you were shown a small gray arrow in the margin of the
page. This arrow would point to the top-left corner of the area I have
seen already, like the horizontal line in Unix gv(1) does. I think a 
diagonal arrow, as shown below in crude ASCII art, would work well:

\ 
\ 
 > 

Or, instead, it could be a horizontal arrow pointing to the first new
unread line of the page.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Jason Spiro]

This enhancement request is still valid for modern versions of Firefox. I've updated the Version field.

Dear bwinton: This bug has hung around for 14 years, but is still unconfirmed. I wonder if you could please consider either confirming it or declining it as WONTFIX?

Comment 4

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Yeah, sorry it's taken so long.

I think this is a neat idea, but practically speaking we won't have the resources to work on it any time in the near future, so I'll close it as WONTFIX, since we wouldn't have the time to review a patch even if someone jumped in with one.

If you still want it, I bet someone could write an extension that added the feature. (Finding that someone would be the hard part, I imagine.)

Thank you for filing the bug, and I hope that other bugs you filed had more successful resolutions!