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On Sunday 27 June 2010 11:12:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it |
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> > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels |
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> > or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed |
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> > this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that |
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> > direction anyway so it might not mean anything. |
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> I've seen this too, but so rarely that I just blink at it and move on. |
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> Maybe once or twice a year. |
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I didn't post so far on this thread because like Peter I only rarely have |
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noticed this. Typically, I noticed this only when the ADSL/wireless |
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connection is congested or playing up. Essentially, I concluded that I am |
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asking FF/Konqueror to scroll down a page that it hasn't yet finished |
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downloading or rendering. Not sure if the latest version is behaving in this |
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manner. |
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I have not noticed Opera suffering from this, probably because it uses a |
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different model for deciding at which point in the download process it renders |
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the page. |
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PS. Browser engines are programmed to give the impression of speed by |
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rendering pages *before* they complete downloading. This decision making |
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process involves the different elements on a page (text, scripts, images, |
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etc.) and the observed behaviour may be related to the way that FF/Konqueror |
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treat different elements during a slow download Vis A Vis Opera, or other |
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browsers that don't suffer as much from this problem. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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