Firefox smooth scroll

I'm using Camino as my main browser, but I have some issues with Firefox and scrolling.

Text scrolling is decent, but as soon as I get to an image on the page, scrolling speed drops drastically and lags far behind my mouse wheel or scroll bar. This is especially noticeable when I use the free-scroll on my mouse, which basically should let me scroll up and down really fast.

This problem is made even worse when I turn on smooth scrolling - now even text becomes slow to scroll and images even worse. But even with smooth scrolling turned off (which I don't see why I should have to on a system that should be more than capable of simple web browsing), it's slow.

Of course, I have no problems with this with Camino or Safari. Is there any way to fix this for Firefox and Minefield?

 

I've never heard of this before with either of those browsers. I can only suggest that it is your system although I'm really not sure. I've subscribed to this thread because I'm really interested to see if there's an answer to this.

You could try portable firefox (located at http://www.portableapps.com) which might help just because the code's quite different so if it is a system error it might rectify it but you can still install all the plugins e.t.c.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

 

No, Firefox has always had this problem, even in Windows, but it wasn't quite as noticeable before, and I attributed it to my slow PC at the time. It definitely should not still be appearing in my new system though.

I'm not necessarily saying that the scroll speed would stop entirely - it still scrolls, albeit lagged a bit. For example, if I'm at the top of the page and I spin my mouse wheel down, the page should roll to the end almost instantly (and it does in Safari and Camino - a blur and it's at the end). In firefox, it scrolls slower in general, and slows even a bit more when it hits an image, and then resumes scrolling a bit faster when the image is off the screen.

Also, this problem seems worse in minefield, but at least that can be attributed to the new engine and its alpha status (I hope anyway).


EDIT: Also wanted to add that I have no addons or extensions running.

 

Great - glad I've learnt about that. Thanks!

 

Always for who? I've used Firefox since it was Firebird .6 or something, and I've never had this issue...

 

Well, for me of course, since I'm the one that it's happening to

When I say "always" I meant the problem existed on my old PC in Windows XP and in Windows Vista - which at the time I assumed it was because my computer was simply slow.

On my work computer, which is an ungodly old and slow PC, it occurs as well. Again, I assumed this was because my work PC sucks.

On my new MBP, it exists in OSX and in Vista. It's not a huge problem, but in comparison to browsers like Safari and Camino which simply flow smoothly and nearly instantly, there's a noticeable difference. This time, I have to believe that it's not simply because the computer's slow, but on 3 different computers across 2 different OSes, it's really a problem.

 

Strange. Now that I think about it more, I have had it happen to me before, but it wasn't consistent, even on the same PC. It was probably just from too much multitasking on my old work computer with only half a gig of RAM.

 

Firefox on the Mac could perform a little better than it does. That said, I still use it, but, I wish it was a little more responsive, and a little more stable.

 

I never thought I would say this but Safari has by far the best and fastest scrolling bar none. After the last update (and now I am using Safari 3) the scrolling is incredible. I noticed this right away with MySpace. The MySpace website is the worst for scrolling and Safari choked every time. Now it zooms through web pages with graphics and text.

 

Yea I like how fast Safari is and even the interface. I just wish it had a few more features and customizations (i.e. bookmark keywords, handling new tabs properly from gmail, etc.)

 

I've used Safari Intarweb Adventure for a total of like 15 minutes, which was about 15 minutes too long IMO.

 

Im not sure about your problem in particular, but I do notice this version of firefox to me much more responsive than the one on the mozilla page:

http://www.furbism.com/firefoxmac/

just get the most recent FX2 build...mines called BonEcho...its great, it loads up all my extensions and bookmarks right away, so you can try it out and delete it if you want.

 

Hey that's interesting - it even has the latest nightlies. I'll try it out. Thanks for the suggestion