Open Bug 958455 Opened 10 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[UX] Visibility indicator in the tab list drop down can be confused with a scroll bar

Categories

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

defect
Points:
3

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People

(Reporter: svbabukumar, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: uiwanted, Whiteboard: [ux])

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Attached image TabList_Scrollbar.jpg
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.72 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Step 1: Open the fire fox
Step 2: Click on the "+" or "Ctrl + T" more than 40 times 
Step 3: Click on the drop down button available next to the tabs to see the list of tabs opened



Actual results:

In the tabs list drop down scroll bars appears but doesn't works. the drop down falls on the windows task pane


Expected results:

The available scroll bar in the tab list drop down should work properly and the tab list drop down should not fall on the windows task pane


Note: Please find attached  the screen shot

Live build 26 - Win 7 64 bit- Reproducible
B 27 - Beta 5 -Win 7 64 bit- Reproducible
Aurora 28 Win 7 64 Bit- Reproducible
B 27 - Beta 5 -Ubuntu 13.10 32 bit - Reproducible
Nightly - Win 7 64 bit - Reproducible
I was able to reproduce this issue on Mac OS X 10.9, Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit, using:
- latest Nightly (Build ID: 20140113030203)
- latest Aurora (Build ID: 20140112004002)
- latest Beta (Build ID: 20140109165205)
- Firefox 26.0 (Build ID: 20131205075310)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 7 → All
This isn't a scroll bar.
Blocks: 626903
Component: Tabbed Browser → Theme
Keywords: uiwanted
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Summary: Scroll bar in the tab list drop down not working and the drop down falls on the windows task pane → Visibility indicator in the tab list drop down can be confused with a scroll bar
Version: 27 Branch → Trunk
uiwanted, because it's not clear what this indicator should look like instead.
Keywords: uiwanted
Summary: Visibility indicator in the tab list drop down can be confused with a scroll bar → [UX] Visibility indicator in the tab list drop down can be confused with a scroll bar
No longer blocks: fxdesktopbacklog
Flags: firefox-backlog+
Whiteboard: [ux] p=0 → [ux] p=3
Points: --- → 3
Flags: qe-verify-
Whiteboard: [ux] p=3 → [ux]
Severity: normal → S3
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