I see a maybe-related problem in Chrome for Android. It’s very annoying, because on a narrow screen it’s inevitably covering up something I’m trying to read.
Good question, just did some fiddling around. Current best theory (this is on Android Chrome):
Scroll the page downward so that the top bar appears.
Tap a link, but drag away from it, so the tooltip appears but the link doesn’t activate. (Or otherwise do something that makes a tooltip appear, I think.)
Scroll the page upward so that the top bar disappears.
Tap to close the tooltip.
If this doesn’t reproduce the problem 100% of the time, it seems very close. I definitely have the intuition that it’s related to link clicks; I also note that it always seems to happen to me on Zvi’s posts, in case there’s something special about his links (but probably it’s just the sheer volume of them.)
Is my reproduction in the original comment not enough? I’m pretty sure the problem in Firefox is just the same as in the mobile browsers, namely that the notification bar does weird stuff as the page is loaded, when it should be invisible unless intentionally opened by the user. Maybe the bar is instead set to be displayed as visible but offscreen, and thus randomly appears onscreen when the page is loaded and the positions of page elements move around during loading?
If you’d prefer, we can also move this discussion to the Github issue tracker if there’s already a ticket for the bug.
EDIT: So far I’ve reported a wholebunchofbugs, incl. reproductions (incomplete list). If the LW team could use someone to help with bug reports & reproductions, I might be up for that, so let me know and we could work something out.
I see a maybe-related problem in Chrome for Android. It’s very annoying, because on a narrow screen it’s inevitably covering up something I’m trying to read.
We’ve been trying to reproduce this bug for a while. Do you by any chance have any series of steps that reliably produces it?
Good question, just did some fiddling around. Current best theory (this is on Android Chrome):
Scroll the page downward so that the top bar appears.
Tap a link, but drag away from it, so the tooltip appears but the link doesn’t activate. (Or otherwise do something that makes a tooltip appear, I think.)
Scroll the page upward so that the top bar disappears.
Tap to close the tooltip.
If this doesn’t reproduce the problem 100% of the time, it seems very close. I definitely have the intuition that it’s related to link clicks; I also note that it always seems to happen to me on Zvi’s posts, in case there’s something special about his links (but probably it’s just the sheer volume of them.)
This seems great, thank you!
Is my reproduction in the original comment not enough? I’m pretty sure the problem in Firefox is just the same as in the mobile browsers, namely that the notification bar does weird stuff as the page is loaded, when it should be invisible unless intentionally opened by the user. Maybe the bar is instead set to be displayed as visible but offscreen, and thus randomly appears onscreen when the page is loaded and the positions of page elements move around during loading?
If you’d prefer, we can also move this discussion to the Github issue tracker if there’s already a ticket for the bug.
EDIT: So far I’ve reported a whole bunch of bugs, incl. reproductions (incomplete list). If the LW team could use someone to help with bug reports & reproductions, I might be up for that, so let me know and we could work something out.