Firefox does not keep smooth scrolling setting
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(Core :: Panning and Zooming, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Steps to reproduce:
Install an update.
Actual results:
The Smooth Scrolling setting gets reenabled with each update.
Expected results:
The setting should have stayed off.
I'm currently on 115.13.0esr, 64 bit on openSUSE Leap 15.6.
I couldn't pinpoint the problem exactly yet, but as far as I can tell, it unfolds like this:
Whenever I patch my system and reboot it,
Firefox comes back with the smooth scrolling setting enabled.
I always keep it off, because it annoys me greatly.
So, everytime I patch and reboot, I have to go into the settings and disable it again.
Strangely, Thunderbird seems to have the same problem.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Panning and Zooming' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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There are two similar bugs, bug 1851024 and bug 1862645. We think bug 1851024 is caused by Firefox Sync which can be mitigated by setting services.sync.prefs.sync.general.smoothScroll to false.
Thank you for the information. I hadn't found these.
I've set
services.sync.prefs.sync.general.smoothScroll
to false. Will keep an eye on it.
Side note:
I Also noticed
gtk-enable-animations
in the other ticket. This is probably a really bad idea.
I'm on KDE Plasma and I haven't the faintest idea where I'd find this setting.
I understand disabling smooth scrolling,
when it is present (i.e. someone suffers from epilepsy),
but the other way round seems rather impractical.
I am annoyed because it handles like soap. I turned it off. I want it off.
Nevermind what some obscure flag I probably don't have the tools installed to change, is set to.
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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Setting P3:S3 to match other similar bugs.
(In reply to Joey Crockett from comment #4)
gtk-enable-animations
in the other ticket. This is probably a really bad idea.
I'm on KDE Plasma and I haven't the faintest idea where I'd find this setting.
I understand disabling smooth scrolling,
when it is present (i.e. someone suffers from epilepsy),
but the other way round seems rather impractical.
I am annoyed because it handles like soap. I turned it off. I want it off.
Nevermind what some obscure flag I probably don't have the tools installed to change, is set to.
Based on this change, KDE has a link to gtk-enable-animations. We may be able to disable it via a setting on KDE.
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