| 1 |
Mick wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sunday 27 June 2010 11:12:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
>> On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
| 5 |
>> |
| 6 |
>>> Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it |
| 7 |
>>> starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels |
| 8 |
>>> or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed |
| 9 |
>>> this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that |
| 10 |
>>> direction anyway so it might not mean anything. |
| 11 |
>>> |
| 12 |
>> I've seen this too, but so rarely that I just blink at it and move on. |
| 13 |
>> Maybe once or twice a year. |
| 14 |
>> |
| 15 |
> I didn't post so far on this thread because like Peter I only rarely have |
| 16 |
> noticed this. Typically, I noticed this only when the ADSL/wireless |
| 17 |
> connection is congested or playing up. Essentially, I concluded that I am |
| 18 |
> asking FF/Konqueror to scroll down a page that it hasn't yet finished |
| 19 |
> downloading or rendering. Not sure if the latest version is behaving in this |
| 20 |
> manner. |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> I have not noticed Opera suffering from this, probably because it uses a |
| 23 |
> different model for deciding at which point in the download process it renders |
| 24 |
> the page. |
| 25 |
> |
| 26 |
> PS. Browser engines are programmed to give the impression of speed by |
| 27 |
> rendering pages *before* they complete downloading. This decision making |
| 28 |
> process involves the different elements on a page (text, scripts, images, |
| 29 |
> etc.) and the observed behaviour may be related to the way that FF/Konqueror |
| 30 |
> treat different elements during a slow download Vis A Vis Opera, or other |
| 31 |
> browsers that don't suffer as much from this problem. |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
I have noticed that it does this more often when pages are still |
| 35 |
loading, especially if they have flash on the page. A good while back, |
| 36 |
weather.gov was really bad at this. Konqueror and Firefox would scroll |
| 37 |
fine but I couldn't even read emails when Seamonkey was loading. It |
| 38 |
would not appear or scroll until it loaded the page completely. I was |
| 39 |
on dial-up at the time so it was painfully slow. I didn't think about |
| 40 |
the loading part until Mick wrote this reply. |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
Could this be the issue? They won't scroll until the page loads up? |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
Dale |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
:-) :-) |
Archives