Closed Bug 1794991 Opened 2 years ago Closed 1 year ago

Preferences page is scrolled only up by pressing keyboard's arrow keys

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox106 --- wontfix
firefox107 --- wontfix
firefox108 --- fix-optional

People

(Reporter: csasca, Unassigned)

References

(Regression)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

Found in

  • Firefox 106.0

Affected versions

  • Firefox 106.0
  • Firefox 107.0a1

Tested platforms

  • Affected platforms: macOS 13, Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10
  • Unaffected platforms:

Steps to reproduce

  1. Launch Firefox
  2. Access about:preferences and scroll the page down
  3. Press the keyboard arrows

Expected result

  • Up key scrolls the page up and down key scrolls the page down

Actual result

  • Left does nothing, and the other arrows scroll only up

Regression range

  • Will see for a regression

Additional notes

  • The issue can be seen in the following attachment
  • If fullscreen is active, the issue is not reproducible
Has STR: --- → yes

I can reproduce this on Nightly107.0a1 Windows10.

STR:

  1. Open about:preferences
  2. Scroll down a little with mouse wheel
  3. Press Arrow Keys (up/down) or Page Up/Down keys

Actual Results:
Page scroll only up.

Thanks Alice, indeed it seems that by scrolling only a bit, it will be reproducible on Windows and Ubuntu as well. Modifying the title and the Bug description.

Summary: [macOS] Preferences page is scrolled only up by pressing keyboard's arrow keys → Preferences page is scrolled only up by pressing keyboard's arrow keys

Seems that the issue was introduced between 2021-12-14 and 2021-12-15.

DEBUG : Found commit message:
Bug 1400420 - fix tabbing backwards in prefs to not hide items behind the search/policies sticky header

Keywords: regressionwindow-wanted → regression
OS: macOS → All

I can't reproduce on macOS. Arrow keys while the search box is focused do nothing, arrow keys if it's not focused work fine. Perhaps bug 1795661 fixed this?

Flags: needinfo?(catalin.sasca)
Regressed by: 1400420

We tried on macOS 13.2.1 and Windows 10 and couldn't either reproduce it on Firefox 111.0b1.

Flags: needinfo?(catalin.sasca)

Resolving per the last comment. :-)

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 year ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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