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Pages jump back to the top if I start reading before they finish loading.

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I found that someone had a similar bug about 8 years ago (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292286) but obviously, firefox has since been updated considerably, so the fix (download Mozilla 5.0) isn't appropriate anymore. It only happens on slow loading pages, and only intermittently.

I found that someone had a similar bug about 8 years ago (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292286) but obviously, firefox has since been updated considerably, so the fix (download Mozilla 5.0) isn't appropriate anymore. It only happens on slow loading pages, and only intermittently.

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It is possible that some JavaScript runs on a specific page that modifies the content or sets focus to an element on the page and in such a case there is probably nothing to do about this.

Does this happens on long pages?

Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page that doesn't require authentication (log in) to access it?

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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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It is possible that some JavaScript runs on a specific page that modifies the content or sets focus to an element on the page and in such a case there is probably nothing to do about this.

Does this happens on long pages?

Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page that doesn't require authentication (log in) to access it?

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=s I actually can't replicate the problem anymore, even outside of safe mode. I don't know what sort of phantom glitch it was... I'll mark it as solved for now and come back if it breaks again.

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