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Bug 114751 - Need to be able to disable smooth scrolling
Need to be able to disable smooth scrolling
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Marco Pesenti Gritti
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-09 03:41 UTC by mrroach
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description mrroach 2003-06-09 03:41:58 UTC 
I just upgraded to Epiphany 0.7 and debian's current
mozilla-browser-snapshot (20030520) and the scrolling behaviour has
changed. The smooth scrolling is nice looking but it bothers my eyes on my
laptop screen as well as using quite a lot of cpu. On my 2ghz P4 it takes
up 100% cpu. 

On slower machines and over remote X connections this is sure to be a
problem,  I know that it is a problem with IE on my Citrix servers.

IE has a registry key that disables this behaviour, I imagine a gconf key
would be appropriate for Epiphany.

Thanks,

Mark Roach
Comment 1 mrroach 2003-06-09 21:39:25 UTC 
Just an update on this, after using Epiphany all day today with smooth
scrolling, it has become so painful on my eyes that I'm recompiling
with it disabled.
Comment 2 spark 2003-06-11 11:57:12 UTC 
Ok, smooth scroll could be a problem on TFT screens (especially 
older ones) where the "ghosting" effect could make it look terrible. 
Noteably, Firebird (which originally enabled this option) now has this 
disabled (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203070). 

This would also mean that our users could enable this setting in 
about:config if they so wish.
Comment 3 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-07-18 16:04:46 UTC 
fixed in cvs
Comment 4 mrroach 2003-07-18 16:13:49 UTC 
Awesome, thank you very much.