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I have choppy scrolling on pages with pictures

yoramlevy
yoramlevy
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Lately I have slow and choppy scrolling on pages with pictures. I removed FLASH, fixed the .css file and disabled ALL Add-Ons but it did not help. When I switch to the IE engine (with the Coral IE Tab addon) scrolling is smooth and nice.

Lately I have slow and choppy scrolling on pages with pictures. I removed FLASH, fixed the .css file and disabled ALL Add-Ons but it did not help. When I switch to the IE engine (with the Coral IE Tab addon) scrolling is smooth and nice.

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cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

See Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems and Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems

If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.

  • Use "Disable all add-ons" on the Safe mode start window to disable all extensions.
  • Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")
bertalou
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I think that Firefox updated Oct. 27, 2010 has a glitch with smooth mouse scrolling. I've posted a couple of other places saying the same...Try opening the pages with a different browser (using I.E. the scroll works just fine for me.) Post if you can use some other browser than I.E.

yoramlevy
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Thanks all. After disabling everything in safe mode without success, I recalled the "use smooth scrolling" option. Disabled it and everything came back to normal. Yoram

rushglen
rushglen
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Firefox has had this problem for years.

The annoying thing is there appears to be no one reason why this is occurring. This support page uses a background image and scrolls perfectly......

So I copied the background image and the css (from this page) for the body into a page I am building and the scrolling was jerky...

so it would appear that something else besides the body in the style is causing this.

If there could be some definitive do's and don'ts for stylesheets and background images from the Firefox organisation - that would be a help, after all they got this web page scrolling ok and I for one cant see how.

lamontcranston
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I too had this problem after accidentally upgrading to 3.6.12. Ultimately, for me, the cure involved the following:

1. Options-Advanced-General Tab- un-check Use Smooth Scrolling If this doesn't help, then also do the following

2. Disable Microsoft.NET Framework Assistant This really resolved the issue-faster loading of pages and faster scrolling.