[SOLVED] firefox problems

**scotcella** · June 23rd, 2008

I am starting to notice more and more how choppy my firefox scrolling is becoming.

Keyboard commands such as copy, pasting, new tabs, close tabs etc, sometimes there is a delay in response or they simply don't work, forcing me to do it manually with the mice the long way. Blah!

How can I fix this? ANy help appreciated.

Thanks in advance

**jeremy1138** · June 23rd, 2008

I have a problem with scolling in Firefox with my laptop as well... It's really laggy and it just makes it dificult to use. Anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

**scotcella** · June 23rd, 2008

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall.. i'll post back what happens ok?

**jeremy1138** · June 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by scotcella

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall.. i'll post back what happens ok?

sounds like a plan.

**hazman** · June 23rd, 2008

i've got same problem so i tried different browser and they were all the same.i ditched firefox and went for swiftweasel things seem a lot better.thats same but i just bare with it don't know if it a ubuntu thing ,but ubuntu is ace i wont go back to windows

**RATM_Owns** · June 23rd, 2008

For scrolling, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/357

EDIT:
And for tasks, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6366

**scotcella** · June 23rd, 2008

Okay my report...

Uninstalled and reinstalled...... While Hardy came with Firefox 3, it was in Beta stage at the time and I had swapped it to Firefox 2.

Now that stable version of Firefox 3 has been released, I uninstalled firefox 2 and reinstalled 3 again.

The choppiness seemed to be fixed..

and the CTRL C,V,T etc shortcuts seem to have vanished...

Luckily for me I had exported my bookmarks...

but i forgot to export my usernames and passwords.. eek!

Seems ok.. at the moment.

THe thing I hate about FF3 at the moment is the lack of add ons. I wanted my favorite theme, MacFox II... but the developer hasn't upgraded it to FF3 just yet.

**jeremy1138** · June 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by RATM_Owns

For scrolling, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/357

EDIT:
And for tasks, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6366

The smooth wheel add on seems to have fixed things for me. Thanks for the advice!

**scotcella** · June 24th, 2008

I can't remember how I fixed my issue but I did try the scrolling extension but I found it scrolled wayyyyyyyy too fast for my liking even though I fiddled a bit with the settings.

So good all is well.