204268 - Phoenix's new "smooth scrolling" feature scrolls too slowly on old hardware

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 203070

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[charles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030430 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030430 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

In recent nightlies, it looks like a smooth scrolling feature's been
added -- pgdn refreshes the screen a few times while scrolling down,
and down refreshes the screen a few times while scrolling down a line.

On my older, slower boxen this refreshing is painful, especially
when hitting the down arrow a few times to read the next paragraph
via the keyboard.

Possible solutions:

1. Remove smooth scrolling (My preference ;)
2. Disable it for line scrolling (Decent compromise, probably the Right Thing)
3. Add a preferences option to disable it (Ugh, preferences band-aids)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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The 'smooth scrolling' behavior exists both on the Linux and Solaris builds,
so I'm assuming it's intended to be a feature.

Scrolling is just painful on a Sparc Ultra 10,
and somewhat less painful on an Intel 450.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

You can disable it by setting general.smoothScroll to false in about:config

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203098 ***

Comment 2

[noririty]

v.

Comment 3

[David P James]

This was duped against the wrong bug Seb...

Comment 4

[David P James]

...it's really a dupe of bug 203070.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203070 ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.