 Firefox Smooth Scroll, Turn smooth scroll on in FF. |
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 Jul 8 2005, 10:32 AM
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http://ewanmclean.com  Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 12-June 05 From: http://ewanmclean.com - Scotland, UK Member No.: 6,127  |
I love this Firefox feature. It allows the screen to scroll very smoothly as opposed to jerkily. To enable it:
Go to "about:config" in Firefox (address bar). In the filter box, enter: general.smoothScroll Double click on the option below the filter box. Restart Firefox and you will now be scrolling smoothly all over the web! 
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Jul 8 2005, 10:38 AM
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Bursting with vegany goodness! Group: Members Posts: 342 Joined: 8-April 05 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 3,753 myCENTs:10.76 |
Wow! Thanks for that, very useful. Where did you find this? Are there good sites on the net for this sort of thing in Firefox?
I've been using www.firefoxtutor.com recently, which hasn't been that bad, do you know of others? |
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Jul 8 2005, 11:30 AM
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http://ewanmclean.com Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 12-June 05 From: http://ewanmclean.com - Scotland, UK Member No.: 6,127 |
You're welcome.
There is a tutorial on asta for firefox tweaks. And I think I actually found it in Firefox's options screen or maybe through FireTune (a program for tweaking FF.) However, i wanted to post about it and couldn't find it so went through about:config and searched for it.  Glad this helped!
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Jul 8 2005, 12:38 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 196 Joined: 12-April 05 Member No.: 3,899 |
It's cool I guess, but it slows things down a little bit. I'd much rather keep things fast and skip the eyecandy.
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Jul 10 2005, 05:33 PM
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http://ewanmclean.com Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 12-June 05 From: http://ewanmclean.com - Scotland, UK Member No.: 6,127 |
Well, each to their own. I use a scrollwheel on my mouse and it used to make it very jerky, so I put this on.
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Jul 21 2005, 12:57 AM
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S.P.A.M.S.W.A.T. Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 22-January 05 From: San Antonio, Texas (No, I'm not dumb. I just moved here...) Member No.: 2,284 |
Why don't you just enable it in Options > Advanced? It's much easier than editing it in the about:config.
I don't have it enabled, as it slows things down. I prefer to have it go faster, like madcrow. But it is harder to follow a jerky scroll when you're reading a large page of text. |
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Jul 21 2005, 01:40 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 11-April 05 Member No.: 3,843 |
That's pretty neat. It does slow things down, but I prefer them to be smoother as opposed to quick and jerky. I too use a scroll wheel which makes things jerk. Thanks for the tip.
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Jul 21 2005, 08:15 AM
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the Q  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,124 Joined: 13-July 05 From: Lithuania, Vilnius Member No.: 7,059 myCENTs:4.06 |
I am also using smooth browsing, just because i like it and i have done it from the first day, just i don't understand why you go and edit about:config file when you van go to prefs -> advanced > browsing -> set smooth scrolling on/off ???
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Jul 25 2005, 06:14 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 20-July 05 Member No.: 7,266 |
Also, you all might like to check out the FF extension called SmoothWheel. You can set preferences and it has a great feel for what you want it to do. It will even gracefully slow down as you reach the end of a page. It's basically the same as the smooth scrolling setting only with much more finesse and functionality.
http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/ |
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Jul 30 2005, 04:34 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 30-July 05 Member No.: 7,528 |
Just do a google search for firefox tweaks. There are all kinds of tweaks in the about:config. It is especially great if you have broadband because the changes in there mostly only make a difference in broadband.
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