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I’ve tried Firefox about once a year for the past five years and always immediately go back to chromium. Scrolling is always broken out of the box on all platfo

I’ve tried Firefox about once a year for the past five years and always immediately go back to chromium. Scrolling is always broken out of the box on all platforms I’ve tried (Linux and macOS). Edit: trying again, the macOS track pad seems ok but scroll wheel behavior is different. Firefox requires 2-3 times the scrolling distance and transitions slowly to the final scroll destination. Chrome does not. Edit 2: I’m almost positive it’s smooth scrolling. Some people hate it and some like it. This reddit thread sums up: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_smooth_scrolling/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_...

confounded 6y ago
Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?
- marcrosoft 6y ago
  If I were to guess I think it has something to do with “smooth scrolling”. The behavior is scroll the mouse wheel three clicks/times to move the page. Expected behavior is move the wheel at all and the page moves. Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox.
  - acdha 6y ago
    That’s what happens on a clean install on Windows or MacOS. You might want to reset any custom settings and remove any extensions to see if it still reproduced.
  - seba_dos1 6y ago
    > Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox. It does just fine for me on GNU/Linux.
taylorlapeyre 6y ago
I'm so confused by this comment. You downloaded Firefox on MacOS and scrolling was broken? Scrolling itself is always broken on Firefox on all platforms? Considering that scrolling clearly isn't broken for Firefox users (I think Mozilla would notice), doesn't that point to the fact that it's probably something on your end and not Firefox?
atombender 6y ago
I use it on macOS. Scrolling is not broken; it is exactly as in Chrome.
adam12 6y ago
I'm assuming that you are referring to smooth scrolling behavior, since it doesn't feel quite right to me. options > browsing > then uncheck smooth scrolling option edit: It would be nice if FF had a slider to adjust the speed. The default smooth scrolling for me is too slow (my eyes jump ahead which makes me feel nauseous).
sleepless 6y ago
For what it's worth elastic bounce when scrolling to top / bottom of website has never been supported which feels very wrong on macOS. Mozilla doesn't seem to care or not care enough to patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108 From what I can tell scrolling works fine and speed can be adjusted for personal needs in macOS.
Aardwolf 6y ago
Try disabling smooth scrolling in about:preferences
DragoCubed 6y ago
the scrolling is also pretty bad on Windows. Chromium based browsers also have gestures which I use often.

confounded 6y ago

Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?

marcrosoft 6y ago
If I were to guess I think it has something to do with “smooth scrolling”. The behavior is scroll the mouse wheel three clicks/times to move the page. Expected behavior is move the wheel at all and the page moves. Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox.
- acdha 6y ago
  That’s what happens on a clean install on Windows or MacOS. You might want to reset any custom settings and remove any extensions to see if it still reproduced.
- seba_dos1 6y ago
  > Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox. It does just fine for me on GNU/Linux.

taylorlapeyre 6y ago

I'm so confused by this comment. You downloaded Firefox on MacOS and scrolling was broken? Scrolling itself is always broken on Firefox on all platforms? Considering that scrolling clearly isn't broken for Firefox users (I think Mozilla would notice), doesn't that point to the fact that it's probably something on your end and not Firefox?

atombender 6y ago

I use it on macOS. Scrolling is not broken; it is exactly as in Chrome.

adam12 6y ago

I'm assuming that you are referring to smooth scrolling behavior, since it doesn't feel quite right to me. options > browsing > then uncheck smooth scrolling option edit: It would be nice if FF had a slider to adjust the speed. The default smooth scrolling for me is too slow (my eyes jump ahead which makes me feel nauseous).

sleepless 6y ago

For what it's worth elastic bounce when scrolling to top / bottom of website has never been supported which feels very wrong on macOS. Mozilla doesn't seem to care or not care enough to patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108 From what I can tell scrolling works fine and speed can be adjusted for personal needs in macOS.

Aardwolf 6y ago

Try disabling smooth scrolling in about:preferences

DragoCubed 6y ago

the scrolling is also pretty bad on Windows. Chromium based browsers also have gestures which I use often.