# Firefox 3 misbehaves with page labels (the '#' thing)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-misbehaves-with-page-labels-the-thing/460436>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 18, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-misbehaves-with-page-labels-the-thing/460436 "2008-08-18T16:04:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-misbehaves-with-page-labels-the-thing/460436/1 "2008-08-18T16:04:29Z")

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You know how if you click on a link to a post the browser will open the thread and scroll to that post?

Well Firefox is doin it wrong! It’s scrolling to above the post, in such a way that the entire post is just below the screen.

Is it doing this for anyone else? Is it some setting I can change?

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-misbehaves-with-page-labels-the-thing/460436/2 "2008-08-18T16:19:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]  
You know how if you click on a link to a post the browser will open the thread and scroll to that post?

Well Firefox is doin it wrong! It’s scrolling to above the post, in such a way that the entire post is just below the screen.

Is it doing this for anyone else? Is it some setting I can change?  
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I dug up the FireFox bug reports on this, and related problems:

> **[Firefox 3, incorrect scrolling on "last post" buttons.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474756)**
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> Using FF3, when you click on one of the “last post” buttons, it scrolls the target page incorrectly. The FF guys say the fault lies with incorrect coding by the VB developers: The bug reports describe a small change that they suggest to fix the...

It’s related to the javascript generated by VB to scroll the page - the named anchor is overridden. You can illustrate this by turning off javascript - the intended article will then position at the top of the page. If you read the bug reports, you discover that FF3 FIXED a bug, they didn’t create one. This version of VB generates browser specific code with a “scrollIntoView” argument which used to be ignored. FF3 is now doing what VB is telling it to.