Scrolling two extra clicks down in Firefox?

I have the strangest thing: on my old Powerbook G4 (1Ghz 1Gb RAM) when I start up Firefox (3.0.1) or open a new tab in the program and I click with my trackpad button on the sidebar a first time, it doesn't move the page down once, but two extra times. After that , I'm fine and sometimes it doesn't show that behaviour.
Anyone have the same experience? And what to do about this?
Message was edited by: TwoCoke

Check the FireFox preferences. I recall there being a setting for smooth scrolling that is off by default.

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