Firefox Smooth Scroll Turn smooth scroll on in FF.

[infamousflame 0]

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.smoothScrollDouble click on the option below the filter box.Restart Firefox and you will now be scrolling smoothly all over the web!

[saxsux 0]

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 http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ recently, which hasn't been that bad, do you know of others?

[infamousflame 0]

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!

[madcrow 0]

It's cool I guess, but it slows things down a little bit. I'd much rather keep things fast and skip the eyecandy.

[infamousflame 0]

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.

[szupie 0]

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.

[Tobias 0]

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.

[Quatrux 4]

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 ???

[patchcr 0]

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/

[VindicoPopulus 0]

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.