629907 - Floating status looks ugly when overlapping the horizontal scrollbar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P5)

Description

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Attachment: Shows what it currently looks like on a Mac

From bug 628654 comment 62:

  Aaron Train [:aaronmt] 2011-01-29 08:19:37 PST

  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110129
  Firefox/4.0b11pre

  This looks particularly bad when scrollbars are visible on the screen in
  smaller windows. Tested this on OSX, see screenshot. Is it not possible to
  have it float behind the horizontal scrollbar? http://i.imgur.com/zjUv0.png

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Any by float behind, I mean on top of

Comment 2

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Agreed, it should be inside the content area when you have horizontal scrollbars.

Comment 3

[Norman Paschke]

It needs to go away entirely, the tab itself is providing all the information that is needed.

Comment 4

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

Chrome does the same thing, so I don't see it as that big of a deal.

http://i.imgur.com/fWXL8.png

Comment 5

[mws]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Agreed, it should be inside the content area when you have horizontal
> scrollbars.

Additionally, if a sidebar is open the status messages overlay the sidebar making the status seem disconnected from the page.