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This site has this line in bookstrap.css:

  /* Use responsive pixels */
  font-size: 1px;
Since Firefox uses the font size to determine scroll distance, this page scrolls really slowly in FF.



Using FF 36 on Linux Mint, same issue. Thanks.


Thanks for the heads up. I was mostly happy the thing worked well (except for arrow-key scrolling) with js off... I wasn't aware of this (mis)feature of Firefox (I can see the rationale of using line-height for scrolling a line at a time, so it might be safe to say that the css is at fault here).


Speaking of misfeatures: I was scrolling down this page, wanted to go back up to re-read something, and the entire page just changed.

I wondered why for a second, then made a half-inch swipe to the left and discovered there's a "feature" to let me change the page for some reason, but it requires that I change the fundamental way I operate my phone/browser.

Tried to read the article again, and on the way down to where I was last reading, the page changed again. Closed the tab and won't bother reading the rest because I'm infuriated.

This is on a Nexus 5 with Android 5.1, so no, there is no rendering issue here, or lag in read of inputs. This is just an anti-feature that need not exist, nor is made obvious to the user that it exists and needs to be worked around.


Seems OK for me with FF 33 and 36 on Mac.


He's talking about the click wheel scrolling that goes line by line. Not the two-finger magic scrolling in OS X.


And arrow key scrolling. So slow.




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