Slow Scrolling in Firefox in Pages With Fixed Backgrounds
Written by BinnyVA on May 21, 2009 – 11:49 pm -
I have a unique problem with my firefox – and as far as I know I am the only one who has this issue. Firefox is very slow to scroll pages that has a fixed background image. Ajaxian is an example of such a site. This problem exists in all profiles of Firefox(not a extension issue) – but it works without any issue in other browsers – like Konqueror. Does anyone else have this issue?
This problem is only present in my desktop – a Fedora 8/KDE with Firefox 3.0.8 – with nVidia drivers installed. No issues on my laptop(Kubuntu). I still have no idea what’s causing this. But I did solve the issue.
Greasemonkey Script
I created a greasemonkey script that disables fixed background anywhere in the page. Changes all fixed background images to normal background image(scrolls with the page). Here is the script if anyone has the same issue.
Fixed Background Remover Greasemonkey User Script
Remember, this is a beta version – let me know if you find any issues with the script.
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Tags: background, bug, firefox, greasemonkey, image, script, scroll, slow
Posted in Applications, Shell Scripts, Troubleshooting | 9 Comments »
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May 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Hi Binny,
I too have the same problem with Firefox/Iceweasel on Debian Lenny. Gmail is also slow in scrolling while the chat window is open.
the same in Epiphany which also uses Gecko.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Glad to know I am not the only one with the issue.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 am
I have the same problem. I was surprised that I didn’t happen to uncover a bug report of any kind when searching Google for this…hmm.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Glad to see this is not an ancient issue. Working with Artisteer, builds great sites, but whenever using a background image (already trimmed back to only 50Kb) scrolling becomes a horrible adventure – not only when using a fixed background. As soon as the top-image (kind of glare) rolls in, everything messes up and becomes slow.
Knowing the Mozilla boys, it will be fixed soon … I hope.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I did not notice this with FF3.5
July 24th, 2009 at 5:07 am
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Is there anyone out there who knows how to fix this? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 31st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Just wanted to say “me too”. From scanning the google results, it looks like it might be an NVIDIA issue. Thanks much for the script!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 am
thanks man this script relay helps a lot
October 20th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Edit> Preferences > Advanced
Unclick the Smooth Scrolling Box on the General tab
It’s a known bug mozilla is working on