On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:49:56AM -0500, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> What I meant is that setting browser type to content-primary in the late hook
> (current default behavior) might not serve any purpose.
> 

It's a matter of complying with the api.. the xul:browser of the current
buffer should always be the one and only type='content-primary' browser in
the window.

> It seems the problem is the workaround for this problem requires a scrollbar
> fix, and from the discussion when I tried to add a scrollbar fix to the
> conkeror code it seems that users that intentionally disable the scrollbar may
> do it in a number of different ways and the scrollbar fix may interfere with
> some of them.
> 

Ah yes, of course.  That will prevent us from automating the workaround.

> I wonder if these issues affected Firefox and the Firefox developers just 
> added
> workarounds as well.  Given that this occurs even when using firefox -app, it
> is hard to imagine how firefox could be unaffected.  Or is it somehow just due
> to us creating the xul elements using JavaScript rather than from an xul
> document?

The difference could be that firefox uses a xul:tabbrowser while conkeror
uses a collection of xul:browsers.

-- 
John Foerch
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