241336 - Scrolling with mousewheel is extremely slow compared with IE 6 with Logitech MouseWare installed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Atkerson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040415 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040415 Firefox/0.8

When scrolling the page http://home.houston.rr.com/verrett/gh/contact.htm with
the mousewheel, the page scrolls extremely slowly compared with IE 6. I rebooted
my computer, but got the same result. Although I have 396 meg of memory
installed, so it shouldn't matter, Windows 2K reports that Firefox is using
about 18K of memory when IE 6 uses about 6K for displaying the same page. Could
indicate a rendering problem with the page that is sucking up resources.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open page http://home.houston.rr.com/verrett/gh/contact.htm
2. Try to scroll the page with the mousewheel (Logitech MX 300 in my case)
3. Notice how SLOWLY and jerkily the scrolling occurs.

Actual Results:  
Scrolling is extremely slow.

Expected Results:  
Smooth, quick scrolling ("Use smooth scrolling" is turned on in "Tools"
"Options" "Advanced")

As I said earlier, when displaying the page
(http://home.houston.rr.com/verrett/gh/contact.htm) Firefox uses much more
memory than IE 6.

Comment 1

[mark_meilstrup]

I also encountered this bug, although I'm not sure if it's completely a problem
with firefox.  I am also using a Logitech MX 300 mouse on an XP system.  I
didn't have any problems with scrolling until I installed the software that came
with it from Logitech: MouseWare 9.7 (for Windows).  This allows for programming
the mouse buttons and other added functionality.  

Anyway, when I installed MouseWare, the scrolling in firefox was slow on every
webpage that I tried, and when I uninstalled it the scrolling was fine again.  I
repeated installation/uninstallation with the same results.  With MouseWare
installed, scrolling was fine in most other programs, but I did notice that it
was also slow on 'Add/Remove Programs' in the Control Panel.

Comment 2

[Robert Parenton]

See Bug 247246 comment #1

Comment 3

[Prognathous]

*** Bug 247246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Robert Parenton]

I have a feeling the MouseWare autoscroll and Firefox's autoscroll are
conflicting with each other, causing this problem.

Comment 5

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

My MouseWare scrolling is also very slow.

I think it is related to the scrolling settings for the mouse. In the mouse
driver  I have set it to Screen, but this doesn't seem to work in Firefox. Looks
like it scrolls only one line at a time :-(

I could override the scroll size in Firefox, but than it would become dependent
on  the window size

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Onno, ...
still see this issue?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Onno, ...
> still see this issue?

Comment 8

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Onno, ...
> still see this issue?

I don't have a logitech mouse anymore, so I wouldn't know...
Maybe better ask the original poster

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

all 3 other addresses associated with this bug, including reporter's, are dead.

Comment 10

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

Hmz. I have found my old logitech mouse with scroll wheel, but cannot find the logitech mouseware software anymore on their website... Without this software the mouse wheel works fine

Comment 11

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Going to close as INCO then.