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Scrolling freezes!

J_B
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On my W10 PC - Firefox with Ublock Origin (as well as 'i don't care about cookies', FB Purity and 'Disable HTML5 Autoplay) add ons
I have several MSE Forum pages bookmarked, I go to one and then 'right click - 'open in a new tab' - to view them.
Sometimes when I have a few open and try to scroll down the page, the scroll option doesn't work and I have to refresh the page to continue.
Is this a bug or?
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I've never had this issue. If I were you Id try clearing browser cache or trying a different browser1
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Linux Mint + Firefox. Sometimes a page won't scroll. I click on the blue header band (to change the focus away from the scrolling window), then click back in the window and scrolling works again.Eco Miser
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Not just me then. I often find the scroll bar cursor is missing, a few random clicks on the page and it pops up.edit Left this thread open and watched the scroll bar disappear and re appear all on its own !1
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Hi everyone
I've seen this myself from time to time.
And it's been reported to our forum provider.
Unfortunately, I just can't seem to repeat the issue: The scrollbar disappears, and the scrolling stops, but when I try to reproduce, everything is fine! So it's not been possible to document in a way our provider can use to track down what the issue is so far.
I'll have another look at seeing if I can track something down, but please post here if there are any actions you take that you know will reliably cause the issue.
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Eco_Miser said:Linux Mint + Firefox. Sometimes a page won't scroll. I click on the blue header band (to change the focus away from the scrolling window), then click back in the window and scrolling works again.
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J_B said:On my W10 PC - Firefox with Ublock Origin (as well as 'i don't care about cookies', FB Purity and 'Disable HTML5 Autoplay) add onsI have several MSE Forum pages bookmarked, I go to one and then 'right click - 'open in a new tab' - to view them.Sometimes when I have a few open and try to scroll down the page, the scroll option doesn't work and I have to refresh the page to continue.Is this a bug or?
The above comes in handy as if you're mid-way through editing a post but can't get to the save draft button you don't lose what you've typed, I've used it on the regular savers threads a few times.0 -
Bridlington1 said:In my experience you don't have to refresh the page when this happens. When I'm using my laptop I can just press F12 and this opens the developers tools, which brings the scroll bar back as soon as the developers tools window opens.
The above comes in handy as if you're mid-way through editing a post but can't get to the save draft button you don't lose what you've typed, I've used it on the regular savers threads a few times.
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