423648 - Increase mousewheel.withnokey.numlines ("faster" scrolling by default)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 513817

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Cody]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

This is an enhancement bug.

In order to reflect the nature of its competetive browsers (Opera, IE) Firefox should have smooth scrolling on by default and it should be faster (at the moment it's really slow)

For this to happen I suggest changing:

mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines from true to false

AND

mousewheel.withnokey.numlines changing this to 6

This will enable firefox to use the fast scrolling Opera and IE already use. At the moment some people think Firefox is slower because smooth scrolling is slow (and off by default). It does make Firefox look more professional if changing the above values to the ones I suggested.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Change two values in about:config

mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines (change from true to false)

AND

mousewheel.withnokey.numlines (change this to 6)

Comment 1

[Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen]

I was trying to figure out why Google Chrome seems so much snappier than Firefox 3 and found that part of the reason is that the mousewheel scrolling speed is faster.

I checked this against IE7 and found that both IE and Chrome scroll about the same amount with a system setting of 3 lines (set in Windows Control Panel) , as Firefox 3 does with mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines set to false and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines set 6.

I tried other values , and it seems to me that Firefox 3 only scrolls half the amount that other browser do.

The default windows setting is 3 lines so setting Firefox to 6 lines works, but a better fix would be to double the amount scrolled based on the system setting , compared to how Firefox 3 currently handles scrolling.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.