[Conkeror] [QUERY] Loses its bearings after returning from a link

[John J Foerch]

Joe Fineman <joe_f at verizon.net> writes:
> I use Conkeror (the old one, parasitic on Firefox) under Windows XP
> with Firefox as the default browser.
>
> If, after following a link, I return (using l) to the previous site,
> the behavior of <space>, which is supposed to scroll down one
> screenful, becomes disordered.  It often makes only a small change;
> more often, it jumps backward several screenfuls.  After a few tries,
> it settles down again.  The effects is particularly conspicuous &
> irritating on going from & to a long page such as
> news.google.com/news#s_7.

Hm.. space was bound to the mozilla command cmd_scrollPageDown--in other
words it should have little to nothing to do with conkeror.  I never
encountered that bug.  Sometimes xul:browser views jump around a bit
because of reflow.

> Is this a permanent bug of the old Conkeror?

I don't know of anybody continuing development on the extension version
of conkeror, so in that sense, any bugs in it are permanent.  It is an
intruiging idea that the current version of conkeror could possibly be
modified to work both as a xulrunner app and as an extension.  On the
other hand, what would be the point?

-- 
John Foerch