Can you test the scrolling with firefox 3 & epiphany and let me know
if scrolling is sluggish

Firefox slow scrolling fixed?
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Using out-of-the-box Xorg’s “nv” driver, Firefox has really slow or sluggish scrolling on certain websites (http://www.firingsquad.com/) rendering this world-class-browser almost useless.

I cannot blame the driver as both Opera & Konqueror browsers work just fine (QT & GTK issue?). Yet, I cannot blame the browser as changing to Vesa or Nvidia’s driver, fixed the problem.

Here are the workarounds:

***Vesa - monitor’s refresh rate is fixed at 60 Hz (headaches).

***Nvidia - manual installation (recompiling or missing dev. tools on liveCD) but provide other goodies (OpenGL)

***Nv - Enable ShadowFB option seems to fixed it but I think this option is deprecated? I really hope not, because I have not find other workarounds for this out-of-the-box driver (If anyone knows, please reply).

I don’t know why they (Xorg, Fedora or Ubuntu) don’t just enable this option by default because browsing the internet is one of the main activities for majority of users on a computer (after games, SETI, etc. rolleyes). Crippling this world-class-browser certainly will hamper Linux’s adoption for newcomers who relie on out-of-the-box drivers

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0″
Driver “nv”
Option “ShadowFB” “true”
EndSection

I do not know if this problem affects ATi users but I am sure you can find a similar workaround and post it for all. You will have to check if ati drivers have shadowfb options

Using out-of-the-box Xorg’s “nv” driver, Firefox has really slow or sluggish scrolling on certain websites (http://www.firingsquad.com/) rendering this world-class-browser almost useless.

I cannot blame the driver as both Opera & Konqueror browsers work just fine (QT & GTK issue?). Yet, I cannot blame the browser as changing to Vesa or Nvidia’s driver, fixed the problem.

Here are the workarounds:

***Vesa - monitor’s refresh rate is fixed at 60 Hz (headaches).

***Nvidia - manual installation (recompiling or missing dev. tools on liveCD) but provide other goodies (OpenGL)

***Nv - Enable ShadowFB option seems to fixed it but I think this option is deprecated? I really hope not, because I have not find other workarounds for this out-of-the-box driver (If anyone knows, please reply).

I don’t know why they (Xorg, Fedora or Ubuntu) don’t just enable this option by default because browsing the internet is one of the main activities for majority of users on a computer (after games, SETI, etc. rolleyes). Crippling this world-class-browser certainly will hamper Linux’s adoption for newcomers who relie on out-of-the-box drivers

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0″
Driver “nv”
Option “ShadowFB” “true”
EndSection

I do not know if this problem affects ATi users but I am sure you can find a similar workaround and post it for all.

Not ready for production use.

Test this, install Linux with generic “nv” driver.

Firingsquad - slow as mollasses page scrolling (affects all Firefoxes. Opera and Konqueror scrolls smoothly).

Built on Cairo (I assume better performance), try scrolling this page with Firefox 2 and 3 beta 1.
http://osnovice.blogspot.com/2007/05/firefox-controls-are-ugly.html
Firefox 2 scrolls very much better.

Firefox 3 beta 1 renders incorrectly (missing pictures), but fine with Firefox 2.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Fedora-8-Werewolf-70446.shtml

Some sites causes Firefox 3 beta 1 to be unresponsive