Slight Firefox problem

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 17:02:33 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 17:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> >> If I click on the downward arrow
> >> the view starts going down the page
> >> and there is no way of stopping it
> >> until the slide control has reached the bottom.
> > 
> > Is this a slow scroll? Perhaps you have an add-on that's doing it (IIRC
> > there are add-ons for slow scrolling). As always with FF problems, try
> > running with add-ons disabled before looking for anything else. Also, FF
> > is a Gnome (GTK) app on Linux.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I'm going through my add-ons disabling one at a time ...

A binary search is more efficient (depending on how many you have).
Restart FF with no addons ("firefox -safe-mode"). If that still has the
problem, enable half the add-ons, if it still fails enable half the
remainder, otherwise disable half the ones you enabled, etc. etc. You
get the idea.

poc



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