Comments on: Enable Smooth Scrolling in Firefox to Dramatically Improve Web Browsing

By: zevrix

zevrix — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:10:40 +0000

I think that Firefox is much more of a Mac app than Safari. I hate Safari, never use it. To many distractions, animations and other weird and ynfriendly things.

By: zevrix

zevrix — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:07:37 +0000

I think Firefox is the best and dislike Chrome.

By: zevrix

zevrix — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:05:54 +0000

P.S. I’m using the latest iMac i7.

By: zevrix

zevrix — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:04:51 +0000

I always turn smooth scrolling OFF in Firefox (and any other app), as well as in system preferences.

In my view, it only slows down scrolling and is annoying and distracting. It generates additional unnecessary movement that catches my eye and I find it distracting.

I know I’m not the only one… Many users were horrified to discover they can’t disable smooth scrolling in Mountain Lion system prefs anymore, but thankfully there’s a hidden option to do this.

By: edem

edem — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:02:44 +0000

Currently Fx’s smooths scrolling is slow as hell with it has some annoying effects, like if you move a little your mouse-wheel, it scrolls even slower…

IE 9 has the best scrolling. Not Fx nor Chrome can beat that. They aren’t even close to IE’s scrolling quality.

By: Radu Tanasescu

Radu Tanasescu — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:04:22 +0000

And as a lot of people have been saying in the comments, on Windows firefox has become very slow. Ever since version 5 it keeps freezing, flash is killing it and it overall works very slow.

I moved to Chrome, I simply cannot accept a browser that’s slow on a dual core multi threading processor, with 6gb of ram and 1gb of GPU memory.

And I cannot believe that 8 versions later the random freezing issues have still not been fixed. This happens to me on multiple systems and to all my friends. How can the mozilla team not notice?

By: Radu Tanasescu

Radu Tanasescu — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:01:03 +0000

I actually hate smooth scrolling, it reminds me of internet explorer. Thanks for letting me know where the option to disable it is

By: No Scroller

No Scroller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:44:04 +0000

Smooth scrolling used to be much slower than “just” scrolling. It got closer but when FF 13 enabled it by default I felt the page was not moving as it used to, so I disabled it.

By: Doofoo

Doofoo — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:47:01 +0000

It’s probably Flash or Java running on one of the webpages, both have notoriously poor performance

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:33:45 +0000

This still does not erase the fact that Firefox is a slow browser. I’m better off with Google Chrome or Opera.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:37:01 +0000

Thank’s guys, that’s a lot better now!

Also I have a quick question, I created an app with Automator that opens 5 websites in tabs. How come my CPU goes to 100% with chrome making my MBP completely lag and to only about 60% with Firefox?

By: Dukakis

Dukakis — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:03:43 +0000

Just use Chrome, Firefox is bloated and Safaris auto refresh is unusable.

By: Alvin Nguyen

Alvin Nguyen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:58:36 +0000

Unless you have only 1 tab, there is a way for you to set Firefox to confirm before exiting. And yes it’s for Cmd+Q.

By: Saman

Saman — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:43:09 +0000

They cant just use the Mac Store due to open source licensing restrictions from the mac store. Most of the other stuff you posted also appeared to be like a whining **** without any knowledge. That said, I’m using Safari.

By: Scholar

Scholar — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:26:52 +0000

Makka,

You don’t know what you are babbling on about.