Closed Bug 469382 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Firefox 3 scrolling with fixed background images painfully slow and jerky after update from Firefox 2 whereas FF2 was perfect

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372039

People

(Reporter: steven_rowat, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18 Build Identifier: Firefox 3.0.4 auto-updated from 2, on Windows XP Perhaps this shouldn't be filed as a separate bug from 441460, however that one specified PNGs and mine are JPG background. Simply put, scrolling suddenly became much worse as soon as FF2 was auto-upddated to FF3. All my pages in development have a fixed jpg background and all became painfully slow to scroll. This behaviour is sufficiently bad that I went back to FF2 for web development. FF3 scrolling is just too slow on the Thinkpad. FF3 no longer exists on this machine, since it seems to have been replaced by my re-download of FF2 (unfortunately). I have a Mac also and FF3 might be marginally slower there than FF2 was, but it's not as bad and it's usable there. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Auto-update FF2 to FF3 2. Turn off auto-scroll and smooth scroll. 3. Scroll a page with a background image with CSS body, fixed. Actual Results: Most obvious when there is a background image in body. I haven't tried other configurations since that's all I'm working on at present, and it needs to be there and worked fine in FF2 and in IE7 on windows XP and FF2 and Safari on Mac. NOte that autoscroll and smooth scroll make it even worse than this - beyond unusable, if that's possible. :-) Note that my autoscroll and smooth scroll settings were not read during the FF2->FF3 update, so at first they were 'on' (I'd had them off in FF2). This should have been done also, however that's a separate more minor issue.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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