Firefox will not scroll while pictures still being downloaded

Question

When accessing any website that contains text and graphics, the text usually downloads first and most people want to read that without waiting for the grphics nor the adverts. But FF32.03 does not allow scrolling until the whole of the page has downloaded, which can take quite a while on slower connections (our is at best 2.5 Mbps, faster is not available). And example would be a page from the BBC News website, most of which contain loads of text and some pictures but I want to read the text while the pictures download - and I'm not interested in the adverts as I never read them.
It would be most usely if the page would scroll while the graphics are still downloading. Please can this be implimented?

Answer 1

I was researching some of the about:config entries that control the scrolling.
Currently the oe feature to turn off smooth scrolling in Firefox is in this menu: Firefox Menu > Options> Advanced > General "use smooth scrolling" or "use auto scrolling"
Oddly enough however, that site bbc uk does not let me scroll until the page is loaded. However I turned off the two features above and after clicking a couple of different articles it improved a little.
I also tried to disable javascript temporarily, but this would break parts of the page. Ad block plus might help specify scripts on the page, however this will create a poor performance in Firefox.
Historically: [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.mozilla.org%2FGecko%3AMouse_Wheel_Scrolling&ei=zAQ4VNfpFseBiwLiyYGABQ&usg=AFQjCNF18V6RRbV2uV9AM0rJ4IvHfQ8FqA&bvm=bv.77161500,d.cGE scrolling about:config entires]