diff --git a/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLContentSink.cpp b/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLContentSink.cpp
index da457dc61e6f..1eb7e77807e3 100644
--- a/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLContentSink.cpp
+++ b/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLContentSink.cpp
@@ -4344,7 +4344,9 @@ HTMLContentSink::ScrollToRef(PRBool aReallyScroll)
     mDocument->GetShellAt(i, getter_AddRefs(shell));
     if (shell) {
       // Scroll to the anchor
-      shell->FlushPendingNotifications(PR_FALSE);
+      if (aReallyScroll) {
+        shell->FlushPendingNotifications(PR_FALSE);
+      }
 
       // Check an empty string which might be caused by the UTF-8 conversion
       if (!ref.IsEmpty()) {
diff --git a/content/xml/document/src/nsXMLContentSink.cpp b/content/xml/document/src/nsXMLContentSink.cpp
index ebdc62cf1e23..0ec11a8835ed 100644
--- a/content/xml/document/src/nsXMLContentSink.cpp
+++ b/content/xml/document/src/nsXMLContentSink.cpp
@@ -352,7 +352,9 @@ nsXMLContentSink::ScrollToRef(PRBool aReallyScroll)
       mDocument->GetShellAt(i, getter_AddRefs(shell));
       if (shell) {
         // Scroll to the anchor
-        shell->FlushPendingNotifications(PR_FALSE);
+        if (aReallyScroll) {
+          shell->FlushPendingNotifications(PR_FALSE);
+        }
 
         // Check an empty string which might be caused by the UTF-8 conversion
         if (!ref.IsEmpty())