Is forum scrolling suddenly choppy?


Carnifax_NA

 

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Anyone else experiencing choppiness when scrolling the forums? I'm using latest Firefox. This just started happening in the last day or so. Other forums I visit have similar structure but scroll as smoothly as ever; it's only this one that gives me trouble.

After I stop, the forums continue to scroll in the direction I was scrolling for a second or so, like there's scroll commands piled up in the keyboard buffer. Happens with both mouse scroll wheel and keyboard arrows.

I don't know if there have been changes to this computer's setup lately, but it works correctly on other forums. I think it happened after or at the same time as the announcement of forums streamlining and the elimination of rep and tags.


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I'm using the latest Firefox and I'm not seeing anything like that.


Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!

 

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Nope, everything is perfectly normal on my end.


 

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The forums have no idea if you're using a phone-sized 320x240 screen, or some unrealistically enormous 1,000,000x1,000,000 display - it sends you the same data either way. Scrolling is entirely handled by your computer.

Now it is possible that this forum contains some script that runs in the background that's slowing your computer. However, I can be added to the list of people who use the most recent Firefox and have no problems with the forums. I'm gonna say that it's something on your end.


@Roderick

 

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I'm not using Firefox, but it's been happening off and on to me. Usually when it happens to me the page is still trying to load some miscellaneous data. Earlier this week I was unable to connect to the page at all for a bit a few times, though I was able to load most other pages just fine. Given all the lightning storms that have been coming through, I've been chalking the whole thing up to communication issues.


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Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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All better today -- same computer. Weird.


If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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The rule is that they must be loved. --Jayne Fynes-Clinton, Death of an Abandoned Dog

 

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Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
All better today -- same computer. Weird.

I wonder if they did something when the Tags and Rep were removed. They could have left some Javascript in which may have been taxing your browser or something.


Weirdly since I updated to Opera 10.60 I can't click into the Message pane to type messages. I have to click into the Title and Tab into the Message pane. Dunno why, although I do know the Message pane is a heavily script-backed object.