Mozilla Firefox 13.0 Final

TheVoice · 4 Jun 2012 at 11:18

Azuse05 said:
Tbh ff has done that for years, at least for me with logitech mice. SmoothWheel amo was created to fix that 4 years ago. Makes me wish the scrolling built into all browsers would make more of an effort to even try to imitate it.

Ooh nice. Seems to work well if you have a mouse with a notchless scroll wheel, just tried it with my Logitech MX and it works nicely.

Phil2008 · 5 Jun 2012 at 13:18

Neil79 said:
Hmmmm

clocks going up and down like a yo yo with firefox 13 !

The clocks and temps been going up and down on meny previous versions now, like if you scroll real fast the gpu speeds up. With chrome or ie this dont happen

Hutchy · 5 Jun 2012 at 13:23

Anyone found Hardware acceleration is broken on Windows 8? Shame really as the browser isn't as good without it on!

I've read that Firefox 14 will have support for Windows 8 so here's hoping a fix is on the way shortly.

KnightStalker · 5 Jun 2012 at 15:01

Dear god the scrolling is horrid, what happened to the smooth scrolling, both firefox and waterfox are juddering like im going over a washboard, smooth scrolling enabled in both and it makes a blind bit of difference, tried the extension posted above and that doesnt do anything either.

Orcvader · 5 Jun 2012 at 15:39

KnightStalker said:
Dear god the scrolling is horrid, what happened to the smooth scrolling, both firefox and waterfox are juddering like im going over a washboard, smooth scrolling enabled in both and it makes a blind bit of difference, tried the extension posted above and that doesnt do anything either.

Go into the extension settings and turn it to turbo. It's the closest I can get to to the old smooth scrolling. Unless someone has better settings?

EDIT: After playing around with the settings, as well as turning the speed to turbo in the basic tab, under the advanced tab I turned the adaptive duration to low and unticked soft-edge. That's the cloesest to the old scroll I can get it.

EDIT2: Found an even better solution! Go into about:config, search smoothscroll and you can see there's a lot more stuff related to smooth scrolling. I changed these settings:

general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS from 400 to 150
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS from 200 to 75

That's pretty much got the old scrolling back! *Uninstalls addon*

mrk · 5 Jun 2012 at 16:17

Orcvader said:
Go into the extension settings and turn it to turbo. It's the closest I can get to to the old smooth scrolling. Unless someone has better settings?

EDIT: After playing around with the settings, as well as turning the speed to turbo in the basic tab, under the advanced tab I turned the adaptive duration to low and unticked soft-edge. That's the cloesest to the old scroll I can get it.

EDIT2: Found an even better solution! Go into about:config, search smoothscroll and you can see there's a lot more stuff related to smooth scrolling. I changed these settings:

general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS from 400 to 150
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS from 200 to 75

That's pretty much got the old scrolling back! *Uninstalls addon*

Thanks, changed in Waterfox and all back to normal

KnightStalker · 5 Jun 2012 at 16:30

Yay cheers Orc, much appreciated

mrk · 5 Jun 2012 at 19:10

Noticed a few bugs in Waterfox 13, namely MapsGL on Google Maps crashes the browser... Also restarting the browser sometimes caused it to restart in a tiny window in the top left corner that once maximised....was a grey screen.

Installed Firefox 13 and all is well and MapsGL is working smooth and not choppy like it was on Waterfox/Firefox 12!

I no longer care if my browser is 64bit given these new findings. FF13 in 32bit form is perfectly fast although I've not used Firefox since getting my SSD cloned to from HDD.

Orcvader · 5 Jun 2012 at 19:14

Just tried it, MapGL crashes Waterfox for me as well. Restarting after the crash made it a tiny window on the top left. Can't get it back to normal. I'll stick with Firefox for now.

mrk · 5 Jun 2012 at 19:15

^^ Glad I wasn't the only one!

That, and Battlelog is now back to FF

opethdisciple · 6 Jun 2012 at 00:59

I turned the smooth scrolling off.

Do other webbrowsers use smooth scroll by default?

mrk · 6 Jun 2012 at 01:02

I have it on but with SmoothWheel extension enabled on top. I like the accelerated scrolling the faster I move the wheel as it allows me to sift through large pages with one quick turn of the wheel while scrolling smoothly and slowly for single light scrolls.

Best of both worlds.

opethdisciple · 6 Jun 2012 at 01:20

Maybe I'l get used to it....

I find websites that have lots of flash video embedded in the page the smooth scrolling although smooth, makes the videos look like they tear.

I think it helps to have a more powerful cpu than the E7500 Im currently using. Although smooth scroling is smooth, it takes 1-2 seconds for it to be smooth.

Just been monitoring the cpu usage on my E7500. CPU usage can shoot up to 67% and smooth scrolling is definetly taxing on the cpu.

Neil79 · 6 Jun 2012 at 01:43

Ya smooth scrolling isn't that smooth

DJMK4 · 6 Jun 2012 at 16:01

Anyone know how I can turn off the feature when I open firefox or a new tab, it now shows a selection of boxes on the browser window like below?

There is a turn off feature to the right of the main browser window, but when I click it, it all dissapears, but then when I open firefox again, or a new tab, it just shows a blank screen and not my homepage?

Orcvader · 6 Jun 2012 at 19:08

DJMK4 said:
Anyone know how I can turn off the feature when I open firefox or a new tab, it now shows a selection of boxes on the browser window like below?

There is a turn off feature to the right of the main browser window, but when I click it, it all dissapears, but then when I open firefox again, or a new tab, it just shows a blank screen and not my homepage?

In the about:config page, search tab and change these settings:

browser.newtabpage.enabled to false
browser.newtab.url to your homepage

Alternatively there should be some addons that allow this.

DJMK4 · 7 Jun 2012 at 10:04

Orcvader said:
In the about:config page, search tab and change these settings:

browser.newtabpage.enabled to false
browser.newtab.url to your homepage

Alternatively there should be some addons that allow this.

Thanks, I done this, although the browser.newtab.url entry, I can set this to forums.overclockers.co.uk, however is there a way for this to just pick up what ever is set to your home page? as if I go in to firefox options and change the homepage to google or something, save, then open a new tab, firefox will still open a new tab with the forums.overclockers.co.uk page

Not that I am going to change my home page.

Not really too keen on this change they have made

martin9887 · 7 Jun 2012 at 11:36

DJMK4 said:
Thanks, I done this, although the browser.newtab.url entry, I can set this to forums.overclockers.co.uk, however is there a way for this to just pick up what ever is set to your home page? as if I go in to firefox options and change the homepage to google or something, save, then open a new tab, firefox will still open a new tab with the forums.overclockers.co.uk page

Not that I am going to change my home page.

Not really too keen on this change they have made

I use this, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-homepage/

I think it's what you're looking for!

DJMK4 · 7 Jun 2012 at 12:20

martin9887 said:
I use this, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-homepage/

I think it's what you're looking for!

Thanks, I will try this, however, shouldnt this be a basic feature of firefox like its always been, shouldnt really need an add-on, this add-on was released in 2010. Is this a 3rd party one or developed by Mozilla?

opethdisciple · 8 Jun 2012 at 11:43

I think im getting used to the smooth scrolling now.

Takes a bit of getting used too.