Fickering scroll bar at bottom of screen in Firefox

  • RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Three years ago someone posted this same problem and it was not resolved and was closed.
    But the problem still exists and is very annoying. I have a simple site practicing with the Twenty Twelve theme, though theme doesn’t seem to matter. First noticed the problem on a Genesis theme. The older post said it only happens in Firefox and indeed I opened the site in Chrome and no problem. The twenty twelve theme is fixed width and there’s no reason why anything should tempt WP into thinking a bottom scroll bar is needed.
    Wonder if there is a Firefox setting that might help. I’d rather not do a cludgy fix to this problem. Anyone else noticing this? Anyone solve it? Thanks.

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  • Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Can you provide a link to your site please?

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Update. Was going crazy with firefox so switched to Chrome and it started doing the flickering scroll bar thing there too! My site is as simple as one can get as I’m just practicing while reading through the Missing Manual book.

    Link to site is http://www.transthought.net/wpmm/

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I can’t see a scrollbar at the bottom, which version of which browser does the problem persist in? Have you tried disabling plugins to explore whether any could be responsible?

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    You won’t see a scrollbar as such. It flickers on and off very fast so you’re seeing the bar about 5% of the time or less. It’s a flicker. I’m using the latest versions of the browsers. It does do it more on firefox than chrome; sometimes doesn’t occur on chGrome but almost always on firefox. The same complaint was made on that post 3 years ago so it’s apparently something persistent and hasn’t been fixed. Given the changes in both programs during such a long period, I’m surprised this quirk hasn’t changed, at least for some of us.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I just experienced the problem in the latest version of Chrome, on your website. Have you disabled plugins to explore whether any could be responsible?

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I’ll try that though it seems improbable that there would be an add in on chrome that would make it do it there and another add in that would make it misbehave on firefox, but stranger things have happened on computers so may be worth a shot. Thanks for helping me with this.

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Disabled every add on and plug in on firefox, closed firefox and reopened it and no change in behavior of the site. Strangely it doesn’t happen on other sites I worked on, though this is the newest and I haven’t gone back to some of the older sites. At the time I made them, the problem was not there. In a way it’s not important in that this site is just for play, but if it happens on a “real” site, I could be in trouble so would be nice to know what’s going on.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 4 months ago

    May you disable the snow plugin? I find it stops me from trying to debug the issue.

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Lol – OK.

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    It’s not doing it any more! What I did was disable everything in firefox, saw behavior hadn’t changed so re enabled everything in firefox and now I don’t see the flickering bar in firefox or chrome. Some addon must have been having a problem that was fixed by turning off and on. Time will tell.

    Thread Starter RobAlex

    (@alexanderobiuwlaxedu)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks Andrew for helping with this. Your suggestion seems to have solved the problem though we’ll probably never know what the specific cause was. Aren’t computers fun (at wasting one’s life)!

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