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I seem to be scrolling at about the same rate as I would be on any other page. What other pages do you have this issue with?

Silhouette 12y ago
Unfortunately I can't remember any other specific examples, but I've noticed the effect a few times on blog-style sites over the past few weeks, and it's sufficiently infuriating that you really wouldn't miss it. I've been assuming it's someone's "clever" JS snippet doing the rounds, perhaps trying to normalise behaviour on some mobile browser or something along those lines. However, looking for obvious things like an onscroll or onmousewheel event handler attached to any element in the DOM turns up nothing, so whatever technique they're using to do it is new to me and I don't know how to turn it off. :-( I'm running release channel Firefox on Windows 7 if anyone's curious. A range of other pages I have open in different tabs right now are all scrolling at my normal (much faster) speed.
- tmeasday 12y ago
  Hey, author here. I don't think we have any scroll event handlers on our blog (not 100% sure as I didn't implement the theme). It's a WP site, perhaps that's the common element -- although I don't think WP ships any JS itself... My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason? --- EDIT: animated gifs more likely.
  - aptwebapps 12y ago
    It was a bit sluggish for me at first but now it's fine: I bet it's the gifs.
    - tmeasday 12y ago
      Hmm, might stop the larger one from autoplaying. Better safe than sorry.
  - Silhouette 12y ago
    My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason? That's plausible. Firefox has been buggy as an insect colony in recent releases, and other browsers didn't seem to have any problem with it. In case it's useful to know: the page was also very slow to zoom at first in Firefox but then when I tried again a minute or two later it seemed to be back to normal. Again, this was a very obvious difference.

Silhouette 12y ago

Unfortunately I can't remember any other specific examples, but I've noticed the effect a few times on blog-style sites over the past few weeks, and it's sufficiently infuriating that you really wouldn't miss it. I've been assuming it's someone's "clever" JS snippet doing the rounds, perhaps trying to normalise behaviour on some mobile browser or something along those lines. However, looking for obvious things like an onscroll or onmousewheel event handler attached to any element in the DOM turns up nothing, so whatever technique they're using to do it is new to me and I don't know how to turn it off. :-( I'm running release channel Firefox on Windows 7 if anyone's curious. A range of other pages I have open in different tabs right now are all scrolling at my normal (much faster) speed.

tmeasday 12y ago
Hey, author here. I don't think we have any scroll event handlers on our blog (not 100% sure as I didn't implement the theme). It's a WP site, perhaps that's the common element -- although I don't think WP ships any JS itself... My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason? --- EDIT: animated gifs more likely.
- aptwebapps 12y ago
  It was a bit sluggish for me at first but now it's fine: I bet it's the gifs.
  - tmeasday 12y ago
    Hmm, might stop the larger one from autoplaying. Better safe than sorry.
- Silhouette 12y ago
  My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason? That's plausible. Firefox has been buggy as an insect colony in recent releases, and other browsers didn't seem to have any problem with it. In case it's useful to know: the page was also very slow to zoom at first in Firefox but then when I tried again a minute or two later it seemed to be back to normal. Again, this was a very obvious difference.