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Smooth scrolling has sucked for me on both Windows and Linux for a long time, I don't see why would it be different on OSX

A better name for "smooth scrolling" would be "imprecise and unresponsive scrolling." It's a crappy stopgap from the days when most browsers/computers were incapable of smoothly scrolling by one line at a time.

The ones you can create with the <select> tag. Compare the lists at the bottom of the following (under display options) under Safari and Firefox and you'll see the difference:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11



And completely lose any kind of visual identity by aping Safari? That's a no go, Firefox wants to be recognized while still looking like part of the host system. There's a theme revamp for the OS X version underway though:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/3.7_and_4.0_Theme_and_UI_R...



It used to be under Firefox 3.0 and earlier versions but since 3.5 it works fine on my computer. Can you link to a page where Firefox' smooth scrolling performance starts to deteriorate?

And no, it's probably not due to OpenCL since Safari's scrolling performance has been excellent for years, long time before Snow Leopard got released.

I'm fine with that as long as they keep the 'small icons' option to disabled the integrated back/forward button and I can get the bookmarks-toolbar out of the way. I'm used to as small and as little as possible buttons since Netscape communicator and I'd love to keep it that way. ;-)

Yeah, that looks pretty bad. But I just tried that page with Opera 9.10 and it looks nearly as bad as Firefox does. Then, just for grins, I tried it with defunct IE 5.2, which I expected would look horrible, but it's actually better than Firefox and Opera (well, the style is the same, but the drop-down lists have both "up" and "down" arrows like Safari's does).

Note: I'm running Panther on an aging PPC Powerbook (the most reliable laptop I've ever had).

The ones you can create with the tag. Compare the lists at the bottom of the following (under display options) under Safari and Firefox and you'll see the difference:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11 "

Ah, yes, now i see. They do look kind of odd!



And completely lose any kind of visual identity by aping Safari? That's a no go, Firefox wants to be recognized while still looking like part of the host system. There's a theme revamp for the OS X version underway though:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/3.7_and_4.0_Theme_and_UI_R... "

Yes, i happen to think safari did it right (TM). But those mockups look much better than the present firefox, indeed.



It used to be under Firefox 3.0 and earlier versions but since 3.5 it works fine on my computer. Can you link to a page where Firefox' smooth scrolling performance starts to deteriorate?

And no, it's probably not due to OpenCL since Safari's scrolling performance has been excellent for years, long time before Snow Leopard got released. "

My bad, don't know where i got that from. I guess since smooth scrolling in windows/linux lags for me, i assumed i had tried the firefox "smooth scrolling" native to osx as well.
Actually, it's much more smooth in OS X. What a pleasant surprise!

Edited 2009-10-31 16:18 UTC