Problems scrolling in Firefox for Android - interpreted as clicks instead

I'm using Firefox for Android, the version that was updated in mid-January 2015. Since that update, scrolling on Facebook has become really difficult - jumpy and often interprets scrolls as clicks, so I keep accidentally following links I don't want to. On websites with a lot of links, or drop-down boxes that I need to scroll down, but where the whole content is clickable (e.g. searching for someone's name on Facebook) it renders Firefox completely unusable.
I am posting here following another discussion on the Fairphone Forum, where another Fairphone user reported the same problem as me, and said that he found it to be an issue with Firefox rather than phone hardware. Here is that discussion:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/scrolling-problems-only-on-facebook/4298
I am contemplating installing a previous version of Firefox to see if that fixes it, but given the advice here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox
I wanted to ask on the forum first. Is anyone else getting this bug?
Many thanks!

Hi there, sorry for the delay in replying, I was on holiday...
I didn't try clearing browsing data but I did try uninstalling and reinstalling, which made no difference. I do not have any add-ons installed (last time or this).
Thanks,
Carla

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