Bug 4051 – Page jumps after loading even if I've scrolled while loading

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: Page Loading

[John Sullivan]

This is also in Radar as 3109180

This is a bit contrived but it happens.
Go to a  pagethat takes some time to load (http://bluesnews.com/) is what I used When the load is 
finished, scroll down. Then go to a new page page. Then press the  back button and while the old page 
is still loading, scroll around a bit. When the page load finishes, it jumps to the last saved location even 
though I've scroll around a bit. It should cancel the scroll on page done if I do any scrolling before the 
page is finished loading.

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I think this is caused by the onfocus handler on the "search" box which is near the top of the page.

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This happens to me often on many different pages.  It's much more noticeable if your internet 
connection is slow (dialup, flaky Airport).

[Trey Matteson]

I was thinking of adding a trap door that would be set when the user first interacts with a page after 
loading starts, which would prevent any later restoration of the scroll position.  This would also be good if 
they started filling out a form, and we would prevented from scrolling the doc out from under them.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

See also discussion in Bug 3390 Comment #16.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13770 ***