888659 - Dynamic toolbar hides until scrolling up breaks use of long pages and tabs.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 868998

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Stirling.]

Firefox beta for android - just had 23.0 pushed from Play.

What happens: Scroll down a long page, dynamic toolbar hides. 
I now wish to switch tabs (or open a new tab). There is either no way, or no way I have found, to do this without scrolling all the way back up.

This seems to fundamentally break Firefox for my uses, which include having several tabs open with relatively long pages, and being able to switch between them easily.

While bearable if you only read two page long web pages, and never use tabs, if you're trying to read between two open long tabs at different places - it's essentially completely hopeless.

Also, scrolling up a 60K page - even if it went back to the original place - is not optimal.

Comment 1

[Ian Stirling.]

Nexus 7, 4.2.2

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The toolbar should reveal itself when you start scrolling upwards, there is no need to scroll to the top. Is this not the case for you? If so, perhaps we didn't uplift a particular fix on 23. How is Nightly for Android (http://nightly.mozilla.org) in comparison? Also, do you have a test-url?

Comment 3

[Ian Stirling.]

slashdot.org, this page, b3ta.com, ...

Works just fine with nightly.
I was going to test on my alternate device - but unfortunately I've mislaid my USB mouse.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Chris, any idea which patch might be missing on 23?

Comment 5

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

hmm, so despite the target being 23, I don't see bug 868998 on the beta tree... This is worrying, is there an easy way to find out what other bugs are mislabelled?

Will request approval on that bug for now.

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Just going to dupe this to bug 868998 which now as a beta approval. This should be be fixed in beta 3.