From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSZvW-0001vd-2e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:16:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66469E0B5A; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDA4E0B5A for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so477344vws.40 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:15:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vfJmL7py+WqmLAUe+WJQm542XWynAMq1B8b7uVyCOO8=; b=sbLpPEE+dt5A8JRQi3bRa3+LW26h5brDlVgqs/h0NpFzMEXh1iLCZ8mlW6z6w2ozOx S6KLzIUAm2RCYTT6iXCDYU4uDFa91ZhhRbHHEYmh2/esM72l7y3sA2yoUtOb4TKmAPox fEmY58MEBhSRkP/TuagIwRH4p+KNh0I7RMF44= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mYswKniixuxrNyMYFMLy2ZTrsTbXQkl7yiJCx4G8YFiwCl2G5iqFknJxmG9u52P3id ipOi8bNyMUj2NXiDXYJhKG5bki0Si55GNqpgoj4omrS0SSpQxLfsMmA6x9zNqb12p0Pf iYJEnYdRXKePh19TPmIKPNBT2LTYfTh8iVYuI= Received: by 10.220.123.167 with SMTP id p39mr1492367vcr.205.1277576125885; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-147-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.147.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y13sm17695630vch.34.2010.06.26.11.15.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2643BA.80705@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:15:22 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100622 Gentoo/2.0.5 SeaMonkey/2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail References: <201006261751.25705.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201006261915.07774.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201006261915.07774.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82fd5d51-38cd-45d9-9b45-faf5def0ddf4 X-Archives-Hash: 3b2dd350ffe1deb060af7d36f6d25be9 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 >> > 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 :-) :-)