401206 - Gmail HTML popup appears in front of the bottom scrollbar

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dodot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

The is a Gmail HTML popup element (may be a div) that appears IN FRONT of the bottom scrollbar.

This could lead to fake scrollbars, and so on...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to your Gmail inbox
2. Open a thread with several mails
3. Make sure the bottom scrollbar is displayed
4. Deploy several mails so it takes more than your vertical space available
5. See the green popup at the bottom left, announcing the name of the next email sender, appears in front of the scrollbar
Actual Results:  
A HTML element is displayed in front of an interface element

Expected Results:  
HTML elements should stay in the HTML container. Would be nice.

Screenshot available at:
http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ffbugyd2.png

Comment 1

[Dong-yoon Han]

I think that is problem to ask Google Mail development team, not for Mozilla team.

Comment 2

[Dodot]

You are kidding Dong-yoon Han... It is possible to display HTML elements outside of the HTML area, but that's okay? Please...

Comment 3

[Dodot]

I think the real problem is the scrollbar shouldn't display here, but it does and there is a bad synchro between the known scrollbar status and its real status.

I will try to reproduce the bug with minimal JS and HTML code.

Comment 4

[FirefoxRocks]

This problem occurs in Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9.24 also. The scrollbar should be there, the message has a long link/string that allows the frame to scroll horizontally. The messages that don't have the scrollbar don't have long strings in them.

Comment 5

[Dodot]

That's true. The problem is also present in IE7. That's strange, really.

Comment 6

[Dodot]

I think the problem comes from the frameset. The scrollbar could be a frame scrollbar and not a window scrollbar. Still investigating.
Could anyone please confirm the bug?

Comment 7

[Rui Matos]

Yep, this does happen indeed with

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012204 Minefield/3.0b3pre

and as always happened since I can remember using gmail.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was originally reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.6 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 9

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.8 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.