diff --git a/ui/plugins/ui/Autoscroll.plugin.js b/ui/plugins/ui/Autoscroll.plugin.js
index 0b15bb1f..2b220f67 100644
--- a/ui/plugins/ui/Autoscroll.plugin.js
+++ b/ui/plugins/ui/Autoscroll.plugin.js
@@ -17,8 +17,17 @@
     prettifyInputs(document);
     let autoScroll = document.querySelector("#auto_scroll")
 
-    SETTINGS_IDS_LIST.push("auto_scroll")
-    initSettings()
+    /**
+     * the use of initSettings() in the autoscroll plugin seems to be breaking the models dropdown and the save-to-disk folder field
+     * in the settings tab. They're both blank, because they're being re-initialized. Their earlier values came from the API call,
+     * but those values aren't stored in localStorage, since they aren't user-specified.
+     * So when initSettings() is called a second time, it overwrites the values with an empty string.
+     *
+     * We could either rework how new components can register themselves to be auto-saved, without having to call initSettings() again.
+     * Or we could move the autoscroll code into the main code, and include it in the list of fields in auto-save.js
+     */
+    // SETTINGS_IDS_LIST.push("auto_scroll")
+    // initSettings()
 
     // observe for changes in the preview pane
     var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {