756713 - "settings bar" on mobile view of 4chan boards moves with the view. (only in portrait mode)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 607417

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Samuel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120509070325

Steps to reproduce:

I visited http://boards.4chan.org/vp/ on the nightly v. 15.0a1 on the Motorola Razr with the most up to date software.  In portrait mode.
Then I scrolled further down the page. 


Actual results:

The setting/ site location bar at the top appeared at the top of the screen no matter where on the site you were looking. (only in portrait mode.

http://i.imgur.com/2rlkl.jpg <-- a picture of the bar at the top in the wrong place.
http://i.imgur.com/Z0xJG.jpg <-- another example of the bar being where it shouldn't.


Expected results:

The bar should have stayed at the top of the site. 
In the default android browser, dolphin HD, and the iphone's browser the bar stays in place at the top of the site. 

http://i.imgur.com/FqMLz.jpg <-- the bar's absence in the default android browser.

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This is intentional; the page uses a position:fixed bar for the settings, so it's supposed to scroll with the page as you scroll around. The CSS on the page uses media queries to switch between their mobile and desktop views, and it looks like the specific media queries they're using exclude webkit browsers, or something. Most likely the webkit browsers are pretending to be @media screen instead of @media handheld. Regardless, this behaviour appears to be intentional.

Comment 2

[Samuel]

Well, personally find this annoying and unattractive the way it appears abruptly every time you move.

Why would we want firefox to behave differently from all the other browsers?

Comment 3

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Attachment: Screenshot in stock browser as of 22 may

(In reply to Samuel from comment #2)
> Well, personally find this annoying and unattractive the way it appears
> abruptly every time you move.

The jumpiness of it moving should be fixed in bug 607417.

> Why would we want firefox to behave differently from all the other browsers?

I just checked it again, and it turns out it wasn't the @media CSS as I thought it was. In fact, it must have been a bug in 4chan's website that they fixed, because now when I load the page, all of Chrome, the stock browser, and Fennec do the same thing. I'm attaching a screenshot of what it looks like in Chrome on the Galaxy Nexus for me right now.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Err, sorry. The screenshot is of the stock browser. Chrome looks the same though.

Comment 5

[Samuel]

It's not staying at the top even with the most up to date aurora build.

There is no reason to take a new pic because it looks the same as before :
http://i.imgur.com/2rlkl.jpg 
http://i.imgur.com/Z0xJG.jpg

Comment 6

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

(In reply to Samuel from comment #5)
> It's not staying at the top even with the most up to date aurora build.

Bug 607417 isn't on aurora yet. It just landed on inbound today. If you're feeling adventurous you can try with the build at http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-inbound-android/1337782586/fennec-15.0a1.en-US.android-arm.apk and see for yourself.

The behaviour now matches Chrome and stock browser, so resolving this bug.