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Internet => Web Browsing & Email => Topic started by: broadstairs on March 24, 2010, 08:38:31 AM
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My wife uses a forum site extensively and recent updates on Firefox probably about six months ago which stopped the site being useable in Firefox. At the time I contacted the site owner but I was probably the only one who had a problem. The touble we have is that the scrolling on the site is very erratic in FF and I wondered if it might be either her PC hardware or the OS (W2K). At this time I decided to try other browsers, Opera and Chrome both work just fine, so I setup Opera to just load this site. I did suspect that the PC needed re-installing but did not do it, the hardware is reasonable an AMD 2ghz CPU with 1Gb memory and enough h/disk space. This is the only site which she has a problem with everything else we have accessed works OK.
This week we had another problem with her PC so I decided to re-install from scratch, in fact updating it to XP SP3. As soon as I installed it and the latest Firefox 3.6.2 I found the site is still not scrolling cleanly so I believe it is something either in the site of Firefox. I do not have a problem with this site using FF on Linux or XP (dual-boot) on my PC (a dual-core intel) with FF but it is strange her PC still has a problem
So can I ask some folks here who use Firefox to try accessing http://her2support.org/vbulletin/index.php (http://her2support.org/vbulletin/index.php) and see if they have any signs of jerky scrolling? Also has anyone any ideas about what I can try to solve the problem?
Thanks..... Stuart
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Hi Stuart,
Just gave your link a whirl and it scrolls fine for me. Windows Vista,and using FF 3.6.2.I have 2gb ram,320 gb hd and an intel 2.13 core 2 duo installed
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There does seem to be something slightly unusual in the scrolling on that forum. It's not jerky or erratic for me, but there seems to be a small 'elastic band' effect between operating the scroll wheel and seeing the effect (if you see what I mean). I'm using FF 3.6.3pre on Linux.
I've looked at the forum in Opera 10.51 (pre-release) and there's no elastic band effect in the scrolling, so I do tend to agree that there is some kind of scrolling issue with FF 3.5+, but where the fault lies I have no idea.
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It's fine from Firefox 3.0.18 on Linux. Nothing at all unusual.
Cheers,
Peter
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There does seem to be something slightly unusual in the scrolling on that forum. It's not jerky or erratic for me, but there seems to be a small 'elastic band' effect between operating the scroll wheel and seeing the effect
I get the same "elastic band" effect using XP/SP3 + FF 3.6.2
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Thanks guys.... it does seem strange that this is the only website I have found which exhibits a problem on my wife's PC. I am starting to think that it could be a combination of website coding and FF, especially since FF is so picky about being standards compliant and I'm not sure how fully compliant the site is, also it does use a load of javascript. My FF error console does show some errors when loading the page.
I have emailed the folks who support it but let things go until I had tried on a vanilla system which I now have, so I'll probably rattle their cage again.
Stuart
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Hi
I do not see any problem :).Scrolling is OK. I am using Vista Home premium sp2 and FF 3.6.2
The error console does not show anything amiss .
Regards Jeff