Mozilla Firefox

  1. Bug #125970
  2. Comment #208

Comment 208 for bug 125970

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 125970] Re: slow scroll with image as background-repeat

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:17:55PM -0000, Peter Lombardo wrote:
>
> The scrolling improves alot if you set general.smoothScroll to false in about:config.
>
> I hit this issue at http://www.timothysykes.com/ with Firefox 3.0b5
> unmasked Gentoo package. (I run Gentoo)
>
> The performance was atrocious to the point of unusable - disabling
> smooth scrolling makes it alot faster but not perfect.
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008042814
> (Gentoo) Firefox/3.0b5
>

Anyone brave enough here to test (your own risk) the 3.0 RC1 packages
from hardy-proposed archive (enable through administration -> software
sources) ? Do they improve performance a bit?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander