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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: Joe on May 01, 2006, 09:19:28 PM

Title: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 01, 2006, 09:19:28 PM
Firefox is putting scrollbars in some pretty weird places:
(http://www.javaop.com/uploads/guest/weirdscrollbars.jpg)
(see to the right side of post)

Any idea what's causing this weirdness?
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Quik on May 01, 2006, 09:32:16 PM
Your theme.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 01, 2006, 09:38:01 PM
Nah, they all do it.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: deadly7 on May 01, 2006, 09:44:34 PM
Your resolution sucks at life, get a bigger monitor/better video card.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: rabbit on May 01, 2006, 09:49:25 PM
It does that for me too, but only when there's a quote/code tag.  Even if there is plenty of space, now matter how big I make the window, the scrollbar is still there.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 PM
It's the fault of the theme or the browser parsing the theme, obviously.

I've never experienced this personally, so I'd recommend reinstalling Firefox?  I could pull a Blizzard and say: "It's working as intended."
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on May 01, 2006, 09:44:34 PM
Your resolution sucks at life, get a bigger monitor/better video card.

I don't have money to blow on a video card I'll never use for anything this one can't do.
My 17-inch monitor is quite nice, thank you.
If 1280x1024 sucks at life I'd hate to see what you're using for a monitor.

Quote from: rabbit on May 01, 2006, 09:49:25 PM
[...] Even if there is plenty of space, now matter how big I make the window, the scrollbar is still there.
Yeah, the picture doesn't do a great job of showing this, but that's the problem.

Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 PM
It's the fault of the theme or the browser parsing the theme, obviously.
Changing the theme did nothing.

Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 09:52:29 PM
I've never experienced this personally, so I'd recommend reinstalling Firefox?
Tried reinstalling Firefox (well, upgrading, but the problem is in both versions). If you're a Linux user, what window manger do you use? I'm using GNOME.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 10:06:49 PM
Quote from: Joe on May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 PM
Changing the theme did nothing.

http://youlose.ytmnd.com

Quote from: Joe on May 01, 2006, 10:01:58 PM
Tried reinstalling Firefox (well, upgrading, but the problem is in both versions). If you're a Linux user, what window manger do you use? I'm using GNOME.

XFCE, Window Maker, Fluxbox and KDE.  I've never ran into this problem.

Also, I assume you've tried viewing the page in alternate browsers?
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: CrAz3D on May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 PM
Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option.  Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Quik on May 01, 2006, 10:20:31 PM
My theme doesn't do it, but when I change themes it does. I blame shitty themes.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 10:34:08 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 PM
Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option.  Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.

Yeah, it's normal for it to happen on the default theme when a post extends a resolution's horizontal limit.  However, Joe's example shows vertical scrollbars, which should never be present for a normal post.

For those curious (Quik will know this.  Sorry in advance if you do too.), it's the result of setting the CSS property overflow to auto. (overflow: auto;).
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 AM
Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Sidoh on May 02, 2006, 10:45:48 AM
Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 AM
Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

/me slaps Joe.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: MyndFyre on May 02, 2006, 11:34:31 AM
Quote from: Sidoh on May 02, 2006, 10:45:48 AM
Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 AM
Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

/me slaps Joe.

/cheer Sidoh
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 02, 2006, 05:09:23 PM
/me cries at the feet of Sidoh and MyndFyre.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Newby on May 02, 2006, 05:15:36 PM
Quote from: Joe on May 02, 2006, 08:04:49 AM
Oh, you meant SMF theme? Haha, I thought you meant GNOME theme.

...

A browser parses your GNOME theme? (Not your system parses your GNOME theme and applies it to your browser.)
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: iago on May 02, 2006, 05:49:10 PM
It's actually due to font size, if you want to be able to fix it without changing themes.

Old themese don't use the scrolling, which is bad if somebod posts a big picture or a lot of code. 
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Quik on May 02, 2006, 08:08:48 PM
Quote from: Sidoh on May 01, 2006, 10:34:08 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on May 01, 2006, 10:17:16 PM
Mine does that, sometimes, too...depends on the site I'm at usually.

Might be an option.  Personally, I like it when there are overly wide pages/images so i can just scroll through that one post.

Yeah, it's normal for it to happen on the default theme when a post extends a resolution's horizontal limit.  However, Joe's example shows vertical scrollbars, which should never be present for a normal post.

For those curious (Quik will know this.  Sorry in advance if you do too.), it's the result of setting the CSS property overflow to auto. (overflow: auto;).

Why else would I continuously say what I have been? :p

Quote from: iago on May 02, 2006, 05:49:10 PM
It's actually due to font size, if you want to be able to fix it without changing themes.

Old themese don't use the scrolling, which is bad if somebod posts a big picture or a lot of code. 

I prefer older themes, because people should get bitched at when they post big pictures, and not just have the browser accomodate. I prefer the older, traditional method, but that's just personal preference. It shouldn't become an issue too often.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Super_X on May 02, 2006, 10:23:35 PM
I've got that same problem, I knew it was the theme, but I've found that if there's a post with two or three verticle spaces <enter keys> after all the text, I don't get tat problem.


Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: igimo1 on May 03, 2006, 02:40:39 AM
Mine does this all the time, on a default installation of Firefox. I don't complain.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: iago on May 03, 2006, 08:02:13 AM
You can probably fix it by shrinking the default font size.  But who really cares?
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Super_X on May 03, 2006, 07:50:32 PM
(http://www.cryptoptic.com/123/crazy.jpg)

Crazy.
Title: Re: Firefox + scrollbars in wrong places.
Post by: Joe on May 03, 2006, 10:44:27 PM
Making it one-bigger or one smaller fixed it. The encouragement I needed to make it smaller has finally arived. ^_^