Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

[Alan McKinnon]

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@×××××.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

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