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    Touch Pad Scrolling in Opera

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Mikeoo17, Nov 8, 2008.

  1. Mikeoo17

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    Anyone know why it's so jerky to scroll in Opera using the touchpad scroll function?
     
    Mikeoo17, Nov 8, 2008
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  2. Matt

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    Do you have smooth scrolling enabled?

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    Matt, Nov 8, 2008
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    its not jerky if you have them enabled :)
     
    Guntraitor Sagara, Nov 8, 2008
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  4. Mikeoo17

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    Sorry... I should have deleted this thread. Opera was hogging 150mb of ram so I uninstalled it. I was little surprised considering everything I've heard said opera's foot print was tiny.
     
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  5. Matt

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    Opera is pretty good, but I wouldn't say tiny. Chrome's is tiny.

    Anyway, that was probably a problem that could have been fixed... but switching browsers works too, I guess. :p (Did you switch to Firefox? :D)
     
    Matt, Nov 8, 2008
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  6. Mikeoo17

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    Just stickin with IE7 :pro. There is really nothing I hate about the program.
     
    Mikeoo17, Nov 10, 2008
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    have you tried the 8 version?
     
    Guntraitor Sagara, Nov 10, 2008
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    Memory management is Opera's Achille's heel. It doesn't use much more than Firefox, but if you have very limited memory, Opera may not be for you.
     
    Nankuru, Nov 10, 2008
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  9. DetlevCM

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    As far as I'm aware IE8 is still in Beta - and not 100% stable.
    (I was forced to use IE8 on my XP laptop because XP SP3 didn't allow me to instal IE7...)

    Anyway - Firefox and IE7 on my Vaio.

    When I used Opera before it used a lotof resoures and just about brought my computer to a standstil downloading pdfs from a German newspaper...
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 10, 2008
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    Indeed. IE8 is still in beta, and unlike most betas, it's very unstable. It's crashed several times on me when I've done testing.
     
    Matt, Nov 10, 2008
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