Slow scrolling in Firefox 3.6.3

Lately firefox has become very slow in scrolling on certain like
www.blabbermouth.net
and I can't figure out why. I have tried to run firefox with clean profile and no plugins and the above site is unscrollable in firefox. It runs great in Konqueror. Then I thought maybe it is kwin's desktop effects that are killing the scolling performance but shut it off doesn't help. The strange thing is that firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 runs much faster on my machine at which an old p4 machine and my machine at home is a quad core pc. Is there something different about firefox in Ubuntu and Arch Linux the way they are build? Can anyone else use the site above in firefox, meaning can you scroll?

karol wrote:I'm on an old 32-bit P4 and I can scroll on that site w/o a problem. Check that site w/ chromium - gamespot is horrible w/ firefox but runs w/o a hitch in chromium for me.
Maybe smoothscrolling will help you. You can also you PgDn / PgUp instead of the mouse wheel.
Already turned on but it kills scrolling completely on the above mentioned site for me at least.

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[SOLVED] Fixing slow scrolling in firefox with nvidia and 64 bit

I'm experiencing very slow scrolling with firefox on sites like
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/
http://www.vai.com/News/index.html
I'm running 64 bit with KDEmod. Scrolling is fine when I remove flash completely but on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) the abnove sites scroll fine on a different machine (with intel graphics). I read somewhere by modifying xorg with "AccelMethod" "EXA" to "XXA" scrolling becomes very smoth onm ATI and Intel. Here is my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 28.0 - 72.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G92 [GeForce 9800 GT]"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection
is there something I can change to improve scrolling in firefox? I've tried to turnoff desktop effects and scrolling is the same annd also running firefox from a fresh profile. Hence, i suspect my nvidia 9800GT card to be the culprit. If anyone has a working xorg.conf with nvidia, 64 bit and smooth scrolling on the above mentioned sites please SHARE! Many Thanks!
Last edited by fettouhi (2012-02-22 17:42:10)

karol wrote:
> Tried it now and that worked. Running without a xorg.conf buty now I can't turn on desktop effects in KDE. How do I set that up?
Sorry, I don't use KDE, but it may be related to how do you start KDE: from xinit or via KDM or sth.
> How do I determine what driver xorg is using now that I'm running without it xorg.conf?
It's running the same driver as before.
> Using the binary nvidia blob driver.
Did you uninstall it? Did you install the nouveau driver? 'pacman -Qqs xf86-video' will tell you what drivers you have installed.
No, I don't have the nouveau driver installed. I have to check if I have the nv driver installed but I didn't uninstall the nvidia driver. I'm starting KDE via xinit.

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slumslayer wrote:
ur25 wrote:
FALK wrote:Do you have a recent nvidia-card? If so, try nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=3 -a GlyphCache=1 (or InitialPixmapPlacement=2)
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