poor scrolling compared to mandriva

[ffi]

The scrolling in Firefox/Opera is really slow and jerky in Ubuntu(intrepid) compared to Mandriva 2009.0.

I have tested this on 3 different machines (ati and nvidia) and on all machines Ubuntu scores very poor compared to Mandriva.

I have no idea where to look as I have copied mdv's xorg.conf to ubuntu but this made no difference, the drivers used are the same too, with or without desktop effects doesn't make a difference either, nor does running another desktop environment (kde4/xfce/gnome) nor display manager (kdm/gdm).

Where else to look?

[ffi]

no one?

[ibutho]

Have you tried configuring firefox to use smooth scrolloing? Firefox -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Browsing -> Use Smooth Scrolling.

[vanadium]

The point is that it is already smooth enough without this setting. ffi is right, Firefox, apparently only under Ubuntu, is plagued by poor performance in scrolling.

[ibutho]

The point is that it is already smooth enough without this setting. ffi is right, Firefox, apparently only under Ubuntu, is plagued by poor performance in scrolling.

I rarely use Ubuntu on the desktop so I can't comment on the Firefox issue. For me, I usually don't have to tinker with the smooth scrolling feature in Firefox on most linux distros.