[QA] Firefox doesn't scroll items into view in browser tests

[Chris McMahon]

I couldn't repro locally because the test failed for me.

I wonder two things:  one is whether or not it's a known webdriver issue:
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=7249

The other is whether there is some z-axis shenanigans going on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17602334/element-is-not-currently-visible-and-so-may-not-be-interacted-with-but-another

If I can get the test passing in Chrome, I'll look further...

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, S Page <spage at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Flow topics and posts have a dropdown "action menu". Tests that interact
> with the bottom item in the action menu started failing on Firefox because
> it is outside the browser window, so attempts to click it get
>
>    "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with"
>
> (bug 70878 [1]).
>
> Other Selenium users have this issue[2], but that StackOverflow has
> comments like
> "Selenium 2 tries to scroll to the element and then click on it" [3]
>
> If I run the test in chromium 37 on my browser and shrink the window,
> chromium scrolls the window to bring the element into view. But Firefox 32
> doesn't seem to scroll at all. I'm running selenium-webdriver 2.43.0
> locally.  Is this a known Firefox issue?  Must I put JS executeScript(
> scrollIntoView() ) hacks into my support code?
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70878
> [2]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3401343/scroll-element-into-view-with-selenium
> [3] http://stackoverflow.com/a/3403683/451712 (I commented there as
> "skierpage")
>
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