341304 - Scrolling with wheel extremely slow @ I, Cringely

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Simon Ruggier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Scrolling with the mouse wheel is much slower than other types at the URL

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL
2. Scroll with the wheel
3. Scroll with something else, i.e. arrows, pgup, pgdn, autoscroll, spacebar, etc.

Actual Results:  
Scrolling with the wheel is much slower than the other types.

Expected Results:  
Scrolling with the wheel should be relatively fast.

I'm using Gentoo with modular Xorg.  A friend of mine on Ubuntu Dapper, also using modular Xorg, sees the same problem.  Not sure if this is related, I don't have an install that uses Xorg 6.8 to test with.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Probably because it had a fixed background.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90198 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Ruggier]

I've tested the URL at Bug 90198, and I don't see the same issue I see at I, Cringely, so I'm reopening the bug.  I don't have time to narrow this down yet, I'm busy with school for now.  Today I tested on a windows box with 1.5 branch and I didn't see this bug there, so I guess it has to do with X, or Linux.

Comment 4

[Simon Ruggier]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I've tested the URL at Bug 90198, and I don't see the same issue I see at I,
> Cringely, so I'm reopening the bug.  I don't have time to narrow this down yet,
> I'm busy with school for now.  Today I tested on a windows box with 1.5 branch
> and I didn't see this bug there, so I guess it has to do with X, or Linux.
> 

Yesterday I also noticed that the bug seems to only occur if the window is wide enough (say about 1100 pixels or more).  So if you are on a similar setup to mine and you can't duplicate this, try widening the window.

Comment 5

[Simon Ruggier]

Since I reported this bug, I, Cringely has been redone in standard blog format, using what I assume is off the shelf blogging software.  As such, the page design is radically different, and I can no longer duplicate this bug, so I'm marking it as invalid.