Firefox or Chrome

[Leo]

Sorry, didn't make a difference. I think I'll just stick with Chrome and see if the next update fixes the display problem...

In the meantime, I might give palemoon a try...

[richb]

Sorry, didn't make a difference. I think I'll just stick with Chrome and see if the next update fixes the display problem...

In the meantime, I might give palemoon a try...

By the way Google Chrome also has a scroll smoothing addon "Chromium Wheel Smooth Scrolling".

[Leo]

*sigh* palemoon didn't make any difference in the scrolling...

BTW...Chrome scrolls fine, but thanks...

[eugen-b]

I hate smooth scrolling, it blurs everything, I always turn it off. And I use Page Down button more often than the mouse wheel.

[newkansan]

Leo,

Check your CPU utilization during scrolling in FF--does one core max out at 100% while the other core(s) is/are unused?

In my experience, this is how FF and IceWeasel perform in ALL Linux distros. It is especially noticeable in media-heavy pages like Facebook and really annoying. Chrome tends to use multiple CPU cores which smooths out this scrolling issue for me.

I still prefer FF/IceWeasel because of the extension ecosystem, but I keep Chrome installed for specific use cases where the scrolling gets too annoying.

[Gordon Cooper]

*sigh* palemoon didn't make any difference in the scrolling...

That might be expected. Both IceWeasel and Pale Moon have been forked from Firefox
so that whatever in the system/settings is causing the FF jerkiness, the two children
may well have inherited it. BTW, am using Pale Moon, with scrolling set for smooth,
and have no problems with jerks or other erratic behaviour.

[sanlav]

As palemoon was sugested in this topic I would try also Seamonkey, installed in the old fashioned way (via usr/local and put a ref. in PATH). Later I saw it's also in repos but i'm used that way.

If that doesn't work also check the mouse driver in xorg.conf.

For an 2 buttons and 1 wheel with 1 press button I modified it like so:

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier   "Mouse0"
	Driver   "mouse"
	Option   "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
	Option   "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option   "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Funny thing, the old PS2 mouse broken and only now I obseved that the new USB-mouse (same desing for buttons and wheel) work with the old settings. Practically I took out axes 6 & 7 and change the protocol to ImPS/2.

Maybe this will solve your scrolling.

Edit: For USB mouse you also need to change 1 line in Section "ServerLayout" to

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

Accidentally I did that some time ago in order to avoid problems with an 12 buttons / 6 axes USB joystick.

[Leo]

newkansan, I only have 1 core (Athlon 64)...and yes, it's maxed when I scroll. I wish I could afford a newer machine, but being on a fixed income, I'd rather eat...

[MX-tester]

newkansan, I only have 1 core (Athlon 64)...and yes, it's maxed when I scroll. I wish I could afford a newer machine, but being on a fixed income, I'd rather eat...

Could be you just need some more swap space to let it work better.
If you can't increase your swap partition (& can't create a new swap partition) you can still create & use a swap file.

[newkansan]

newkansan, I only have 1 core (Athlon 64)...and yes, it's maxed when I scroll. I wish I could afford a newer machine, but being on a fixed income, I'd rather eat...

Then sadly, I think your best bet is to have both FF and Chrome. Use FF on sites that don't choke with it, and Chrome for everything else. :(