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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon
>>
> <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>> On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's weird.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it
>>>>
>>> starts
>>>
>>>
>>>> heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so
>>>> until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the
>>>> downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it
>>>> might not mean anything.
>>>>
>>>> What's wrong about this is that a single click should not do this, and
>>>>
>>> does
>>>
>>>
>>>> not do this, on any other scrollbar on my machine. A single click
>>>> moves the "thumb" thingie a fixed amount which depends on where you
>>>> click. The worst part is that the application won't do anything else
>>>> until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall
>>>> page can take a couple of minutes.
>>>>
>>>> I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as
>>>> expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop.
>>>>
>>>> Am I the only one seeing this?
>>>>
>>> I don't see that. What settings do you have for scrolling?
>>>
>>> Firefox config dialog -> Advanced -> General
>>>
>> Firefox-3.6.3 -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General checked: -
>> Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages
>> - Use autoscrolling
>> - Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup
>>
>> I guess both of the first two are suspects, but AFAICR I've never touched
>> these.
>>
> My setup is similar, so I don't know where to go from here :-)
>
> And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things are
> related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video system
>
>
If that's the case, I have a Nvidia card and use the Nvidia drivers.
Someone seeing this have something different?
Dale
:-) :-)