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

[Dale]

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?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>

I have noticed this in Seamonkey too.  Could this be something that both 
Seamonkey and Firefox builds on?  I always thought that is was my tired 
finger.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)