--- a/layout/painting/nsDisplayList.cpp
+++ b/layout/painting/nsDisplayList.cpp
@@ -7313,16 +7313,33 @@ bool
 nsDisplayStickyPosition::CreateWebRenderCommands(mozilla::wr::DisplayListBuilder& aBuilder,
                                                  mozilla::wr::IpcResourceUpdateQueue& aResources,
                                                  const StackingContextHelper& aSc,
                                                  WebRenderLayerManager* aManager,
                                                  nsDisplayListBuilder* aDisplayListBuilder)
 {
   StickyScrollContainer* stickyScrollContainer = StickyScrollContainer::GetStickyScrollContainerForFrame(mFrame);
   if (stickyScrollContainer) {
+    // If there's no ASR for the scrollframe that this sticky item is attached
+    // to, then don't create a WR sticky item for it either. Trying to do so
+    // will end in sadness because WR will interpret some coordinates as
+    // relative to the nearest enclosing scrollframe, which will correspond
+    // to the nearest ancestor ASR on the gecko side. That ASR will not be the
+    // same as the scrollframe this sticky item is actually supposed to be
+    // attached to, thus the sadness.
+    // Not sending WR the sticky item is ok, because the enclosing scrollframe
+    // will never be asynchronously scrolled. Instead we will always position
+    // the sticky items correctly on the gecko side and WR will never need to
+    // adjust their position itself.
+    if (!stickyScrollContainer->ScrollFrame()->MayBeAsynchronouslyScrolled()) {
+      stickyScrollContainer = nullptr;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (stickyScrollContainer) {
     float auPerDevPixel = mFrame->PresContext()->AppUnitsPerDevPixel();
 
     bool snap;
     nsRect itemBounds = GetBounds(aDisplayListBuilder, &snap);
 
     Maybe<float> topMargin;
     Maybe<float> rightMargin;
     Maybe<float> bottomMargin;