I like firefox but..

[Xionide]

I like firefox. I have been using it for a little over a week now but I hate the scrolling. In fact I hate it so much I am thinking about going back to IE/opera. I have smoothwheel but this doesnt help at all. Is there any way I can make the scrolling not completely suck and act more like opera/ie?

 

[screw3d]

My scrolling is exactly the same in Firefox and in IE.. mind elaborating more?

 

[Xionide]

Its choppy, really choppy. Not smooth like IE or opera. Plus when do a autoscroll its slow. You can crank up to the top of the page in opera and IE in no time at all with autoscrolling but not firefox. Firefox seems to have a top speed which you can autoscroll. Bullhonky I say!

 

[screw3d]

In Tools - Options..., under Advanced section, check on Use smooth scrolling under Browsing?

 

[high]

nice fix, thanks!

 

[Xionide]

I have that checked but it still isn't fast enough.

 

[trek]

http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/

 

[pkananen]

only thing i don't like about firefox is my autoscroll doesn't work like it does in ie. i want the two big and smooth triangles and a dot thing, not the two pointy triangles like firefox has.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: trek
http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/

I am using that. See the original post.

 

[trek]

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: trek
http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/

I am using that. See the original post.

oops, thought you were refering to the options somehow

 

[screw3d]

using logitech mice by any chance?

I have my MX510's scrolling wheel set as middle button, and scrolling size set to 6lines.. have no complaints so far

 

[Xionide]

I am using a microsoft intellimouse optical 1.0 and have messed with all the windows settings. It autoscrolls at the speed of light in ie and opera but not ff

 

[mysticfm]

Yes, the scroll increment seems to be smaller when using the mouse wheel in FF as compared to IE (I'm using an Intellimouse optical as well, just with the default WinXP drivers). Now that you've pointed it out and I've compared the two browsers in this rgard, I do wish the scroll wheel moved the page along a little faster in FF, like it does in IE. What would be even nicer is if they added a slider that allows each user to set the scroll rate for the mouse wheel that they are most comfortable with.

But I wouldn't really describe this as "smoothness" myself ... it's just a question of how much a person has to spin that wheel to move to the part of the page they want to see. And there are so many other things about FF that are markedly superior to IE that I'd personally never think about giving up FF only due to something like this.

edit: Oh, and by the way, I don't want to change the mouse wheel speed setting in the WinXP Control Panel, because then all of my other wheel-using apps feel out of whack. FF seems to interpret the height of a single "line" somewhat differently from the other browsers and programs.

 

[screw3d]

Googling for "firefox scroll" yields this as the second link

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Googling for "firefox scroll" yields this as the second link

THANK YOU!!

 

[Xionide]

Btw if you have the smooth whatever extentsion installed the thing screwed linked us to will not work.

 

[watek]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Googling for "firefox scroll" yields this as the second link

nice!

 

[mysticfm]

Awesome, screw3d! And here I even knew there was a bunch of stuff hidden in about:config, but I keep forgetting to look in there for stuff like this. I've just started a text file called "Firefox tips", and this one goes right at the top.

Thanks much!

 

[screw3d]

:beer:

 

[machintos]

My firefox scrolls just fine