Google Reader problem with Firefox?

Date September 18, 2007

I just noticed what looks like a bug with Google Reader in Firefox. I was reading long post by Marc Andreessen, and wanted to declutter the screen so clicked the “collapse sidebar icon” (highlighted at left; notice also the width of the scrollbar in the article pane - highlighted at right):

gReaderListView

And I found that with the sidebar and subscription list collapsed (again, highlighted on the left), the scrollbar on the article pane (see right) had also collapsed, and was so thin that it was almost impossible to grab:

gReaderFullViewFF

So, I tried IE7, to see if that had the same problem:

gReaderFullViewIE

As you can see, it looks fine in IE, so the problem appears to be with Firefox. It’s a minor cosmetic bug, but I’m sure it’s something the Reader developers would want to fix.

I don’t have Opera or Safari for Windows installed, so can’t test with those browsers; nor do I own a Mac, so I can’t test whether this is specific to the Windows versions of Firefox, either. If you’re running another browser on a non-Windows hardware platform, maybe you can help.

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