Why does firefox have trouble scrolling up and down?

happens in facebook, google+, and even addon screen, and even this screen (the question form i am typing in right now)
when i try to scroll up or down it takes a second or so and then jumps, rather than scrolling

i am curious what autoscrolling does, no difference; the others were checked already
i think it has to do with the memory stack becoming too large, after much browsing, multiple tabs, etc.
it works ok, if it is recently opened with just a few tabs
what really worked for me was:
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yet-another-smooth-scrolling/?src=api yet-another-smooth-scrolling]

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