diff --git a/firestar/src/main/java/Bert.java b/firestar/src/main/java/Bert.java
index 321ecbe..522b98e 100644
--- a/firestar/src/main/java/Bert.java
+++ b/firestar/src/main/java/Bert.java
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ public class Bert implements ActionListener {
                         // dump contents
                         System.out.println("Extracting " + arcname);
                         Fozzie popup = new Fozzie();
-                        popup.displayTextOnly("Extracting" + arcname + "...", "Extracting");
+                        popup.displayTextOnly("Extracting " + arcname + "...", "Extracting");
                         Process p;
                         try {
                             if (!Main.windows) {
diff --git a/firestar/src/main/java/MasterWindowLayout.form b/firestar/src/main/java/MasterWindowLayout.form
index 2e6d399..4ba2e1d 100644
--- a/firestar/src/main/java/MasterWindowLayout.form
+++ b/firestar/src/main/java/MasterWindowLayout.form
@@ -30,11 +30,12 @@
           <color color="-1"/>
         </border>
         <children>
-          <scrollpane id="6e7e5">
+          <scrollpane id="6e7e5" binding="descriptionScroller">
             <constraints>
               <grid row="0" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="7" hsize-policy="7" anchor="0" fill="3" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
             </constraints>
             <properties>
+              <autoscrolls value="false"/>
               <foreground color="-1"/>
               <opaque value="false"/>
             </properties>
diff --git a/firestar/src/main/java/MissPiggy.java b/firestar/src/main/java/MissPiggy.java
index 308fd5e..f271a86 100644
--- a/firestar/src/main/java/MissPiggy.java
+++ b/firestar/src/main/java/MissPiggy.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
 import javax.swing.*;
 import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener;
 import javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter;
+import javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret;
 import java.awt.*;
 import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
 import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ public class MissPiggy implements ActionListener {
     private JButton importButton;
     private JButton deployButton;
     private JTextPane descriptionField;
+    private JScrollPane descriptionScroller;
 
     //private int selectedItem;
 
@@ -175,6 +177,8 @@ public class MissPiggy implements ActionListener {
         importButton.setFont(Main.fExo2.deriveFont(Font.BOLD).deriveFont(12f));
         deployButton.setFont(Main.fExo2.deriveFont(Font.BOLD).deriveFont(12f));
 
+        ((DefaultCaret)descriptionField.getCaret()).setUpdatePolicy(DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE); // prevent automatically scrolling to the bottom when mod details exceed window size
+
         frame.setSize(800, 600); // 1280 800
         frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(640,480));
         frame.setTitle("Firestar Mod Manager");