Mick wrote:
On Sunday 27 June 2010 11:12:53 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it
starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels
or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed
this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that
direction anyway so it might not mean anything.
I've seen this too, but so rarely that I just blink at it and move on.
Maybe once or twice a year.
I didn't post so far on this thread because like Peter I only rarely have
noticed this. Typically, I noticed this only when the ADSL/wireless
connection is congested or playing up. Essentially, I concluded that I am
asking FF/Konqueror to scroll down a page that it hasn't yet finished
downloading or rendering. Not sure if the latest version is behaving in this
manner.
I have not noticed Opera suffering from this, probably because it uses a
different model for deciding at which point in the download process it renders
the page.
PS. Browser engines are programmed to give the impression of speed by
rendering pages *before* they complete downloading. This decision making
process involves the different elements on a page (text, scripts, images,
etc.) and the observed behaviour may be related to the way that FF/Konqueror
treat different elements during a slow download Vis A Vis Opera, or other
browsers that don't suffer as much from this problem.
I have noticed that it does this more often when pages are still
loading, especially if they have flash on the page. A good while back,
weather.gov was really bad at this. Konqueror and Firefox would scroll
fine but I couldn't even read emails when Seamonkey was loading. It
would not appear or scroll until it loaded the page completely. I was
on dial-up at the time so it was painfully slow. I didn't think about
the loading part until Mick wrote this reply.
Could this be the issue? They won't scroll until the page loads up?
Dale
:-) :-)
