Slow scrolling

go to firefox tools > options> general tab.
look for "smooth scrolling" and check the box if not alrady checked.

I'm not sure this will help but it cant hurt.

Yes, the smooth scrolling box is ticked, dadpad.

It's just this very sudden, out of the blue, slowness.

Thanks for trying!

You may have another application running in the background sucking up resources. Open the task manager and see if anything is taking up significant CPU time.

Sorry, engineer, but where do I locate the task master?

It's OK, if it's too difficult to explain, or you haven't the time right now. In any case I must go to bed pretty soon. Work tomorrow & all that! (Getting late-ish here.)

I'll return tomorrow And see if anyone has any brilliant suggestions.

A thought: the slowness appears to have occurred after a big Windows update. May be just a coincidence, I don't know ...

Anyway, thanks, dp & engineer.

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, then select Task Manager. Select the Processes tab and look to see which applications are using resources.

Another option is just to restart your computer.

Thank you. I'll do that first thing when I log on tomorrow, These things tend go better when one is alert, I find!

Done. All I found was the usual (expected) suspects. Nothing out of the ordinary going on. My computer remains incredibly slow.

Yep, I tried the restart option when the slowness first happened. It made no difference.

Thanks anyway, engineer.

Oh dear.

Tried CCleaner?


http://www.ccleaner.com/


I doubt it explains the scrolling, but it's a nice cleaner (I think, as a Luddite).

You've also cleaned your hard-disk?

= Start Menu >Control panel > performance and maintenance > free up space on your hard disk


Also de-fragged?

Thanks, Deb. But a pretty thorough clean-up job was done before I bought it. And I don't think I'm quite at the defrag stage yet, so ....

Last night (wondering if a Windows or FireFox update could have something to do with such a sudden change) I checked out a FF users website ... And lo & behold, many FF users complaining of slowness (of the sudden variety, too), plus other problems ... some talking of moving back to "the enemy" (Microsoft) because of the constant problems. So, could I ask any A2K FF users, are you experiencing similar problems? Particularly general slowness, including slow scrolling. I've been quite happy with FF & the performance of this computer (up until now). I suspect the recent problems could have something to do with a recent update. So some feedback, please?

I use Firefox exclusivly... with auto update. No problems here Ms Olga.

Hmmmm ... thanks for the feedback, dp.

I think I just fixed it!

I did fix it! Hooray!

well? what did you do. People are waiting for this information.

Tried ticking & unticking many boxes, dadpad. (The ol' scientific hit or miss method. Keeping note of what I was doing, of course! ) What finally did the trick was unticking "use autoscrolling" in browsing.
But I've just checked & "use smooth scrolling" is unticked, while "use autoscrolling" is actually ticked!

Anyway, it's working like a dream again! What a relief.

this SCROLLGATE affair has us all hanging on the edge of our seats. Be sure to delete all emails pertaining to this.

Emails? What emails?
I know nothing .


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