What i mean is, if I move the mouse wheel, or the scrolling tabs (on the page) or the arrow keys, the page just keeps hopping up and down, actually losing control of it until it stops. Albeit, I only have a Pent 4, XP SP3 system. The desktop is hardwired to a Linksys WRT54G router. A long time ago I installed a VisionTek X1550 PCI card (motherboard can't accept PCI Express) and my LCD monitor is attached to it. My cable modem speed is 5mbps which I generally do test at that or even slightly better. This problem has been around for years and only occurs with certain sites. Perfect example is at V3.co.uk. So is there any Firefox, graphics card or monitor setting that I could change to rectify this behavior? If there is, I'm going to kick myself for not asking this question years ago! Thank You!
After reading the title, i knew "firefox" would get mentioned. I was a diehard fan until finally getting fed up with the memory leaks. What would happen to me after 45-60 minutes of use is scrolling pages became unbearable - meaning sloooooooooooooooooooooow!. I would use my scroll button and there would be delays of 4,5,6 seconds before the page would move and this could only be corrected by closing firefox and restarting. It would be fine for the same time period then start again Repeat and rinse, repeat and rinse. Finally gave firefox the boot and moved to chrome and i tell ya, will never go back. What a breath of fresh air BTW, that site you listed scrolls perfect in chrome! Edit: my horrible, less than 3 cups of coffee spelling
ratchet, perhaps this I have choppy scrolling on pages with pictures Mozilla forum post might help you. Also, look at Tools > Options > Advanced panel > General Tab > Browsing section and un-check Use smooth scrolling, if checked.
Thank you for the responses. I haven't applied the fix(es) yet but one thing I discovered is that once the page is cached it seems to be alright. I also believe it has nothing to do with mem leaks since that site was the first thing I opened this morning. Most sites it is never an issue no matter how long I've been browsing. edit: un-checking smooth scrolling seems to have fixed (years to late! lol) thank you!
For me the scrolling issue only occurs when I've got 15 tabs open, then it gets choppy. Cut it down to 8 or less and goes back to normal.
