316102 - implement pixel-based smooth scrolling for Camino on 10.4

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 350471

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[mattwala]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)
Build Identifier: Version 2005110708 (1.0b1)

How come Safari and IE have smooth scrolling capabilities, and Camino doesn't? One would think that this browser, out of all of them, developed under the banner of "Mozilla Power, Mac Style", would be foremost in incorporating smooth scrolling.  After all these years of development, it's the one thing holding me back from dragging Safari into the Trash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a long web page.
2.Click the scroller.

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Dupe of Bug 33966.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Dupe of Bug 33966.

I disagree. I don't see anything about Camino (or Chimera) in that bug, which was itself duped to bug 174049, which *also* doesn't seem to have anything about Camino or Chimera in it.

I *do* think this is a dupe, but haven't been able to find the real "smooth scrolling" bug for Camino. Confirming for now; feel free to dupe appropriately later.

cl

Comment 3

[mattwala]

Dupe or not, bug 33966 was filed five years ago.  Any work done on it since?

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

You can put

user_pref("general.smoothScroll", true);

in your prefs.js file (inside ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/), but the smoothness, as compared to Safari, definitely leaves something to be desired.

cl

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Do we want UI for this? If so, where?

If not, can this be WONTFIXed?

cl

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Let's morph this into what mento hopes to do for Camino for 1.1 ;)

Comment 7

[Mark Mentovai]

Bug 347626: We're probably going to have to back out pixel scrolling for Firefox 2 because it does evil things to sites like Google Maps.  We probably won't be able to use it for Camino 1.1 either.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Bug 350471 is the re-enable bug....

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Now that the whole menagerie's Cocoa, bug 350471 is everyone's bug.