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Comment by regecks | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, gross. jk gg G all stopped working.

Checking archive.org, it looks like the scrolljacking was just added on October 12.

This is really unfortunate. I use the MDN docs frequently, and I can no longer scroll using the typical vim motion commands via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

I posted a thread on the MDN discord: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/scrolling-behavior-on-mdn/32...

Edit: Another person pointed out that it's caused by the scroll-behavior: smooth; style. I'm guessing they won't change the MDN website and the extensions will need to ignore/disable the style through CSSOM.

The property docs say "User agents are allowed to ignore this property.", so I guess that makes sense.

Dev tools to fix sites during one off visits and Stylus for regular visits. Stylus is an absolutely essential add-on for me in recent years.

It's useless trying to convince the world to have sane, readable text size and contrast on desktop. Firefox reader view doesn't work well with interactive pages.

Glad I'm not the only one. Where in the MDN source is the scrolljacking code?

It seems to be caused entirely by `scroll-behavior: smooth;` on the `html` element.

Try add that style to this (HN) comments page. Same problem.

Seems like the vim addons aren't dealing with browsers' implementations of that style. Whoops.

For the addon I use (Vimium-FF), it appears to have been already reported and fixed: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/3111 but not yet published to AMO.

Props to you for actually digging in to the issue instead of the jump-to-conclusions "gross" comments.

The irony of this is fairly delicious.

Thanks for looking into this and finding that PR!

I opened an issue with SurfingKeys: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/837

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