Bug 2001807
| Summary: | scroll speed doubled in Firefox 91 due to mousewheel.system_scroll_override.enabled config option | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kamil Páral <kparal> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 34 | CC: | berend.de.schouwer, erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, kai-engert-fedora, klaas, pjasicek, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, stransky |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2022-06-07 21:51:00 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Kamil Páral
2021-09-07 08:53:35 UTC
I booted into Windows 10 to compare. The scroll override is also enabled on Windows: mousewheel.system_scroll_override.enabled true mousewheel.system_scroll_override.horizontal.factor 200 mousewheel.system_scroll_override.vertical.factor 200 I downgraded to FF 90 and interestingly, it is enabled there as well (using a fresh profile). When scrolling on my example page, each notch moves the page by ~4.5 lines, so a bit less than on Fedora, but very similar. When scrolling by larger amounts, though, FF on Windows behaves better - the page is not moved as much as on Fedora. E.g. when turning the wheel quickly by moving the finger all the way from up to bottom of the wheel, the page is scrolled more on Fedora then on Windows. I.e. I have a better scrolling experience on Windows. But unfortunately both systems (Fedora vs Windows) are installed on different PCs (but I'm using the same mouse), so the comparison might not be perfect. I also found this Reddit post where users complain about the same problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/p2az3r/ff_91_messes_with_scrolling_by_default_why/ And that lead me to this Mozilla bugreport, which suggests this change was intentional in upstream Firefox :-( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1715513 Oh, silly me! Anyway, can you just use your favorite values here? I haven't any strong preference here, let's see if there are more complains. Would be great to get scroll speed values from Gtk / mutter but afaik there isn't such central settings for it. > Anyway, can you just use your favorite values here?
Sure. Now that I found out that it's the upstream default and not a Fedora-specific bug, I simply used the config options to override the behavior. But I'm still somewhat concerned about the default behavior, because especially the touchpad scrolling seems way too fast to me (and it seems a bit faster than on Windows, when comparing the scroll wheel in a very unscientific way), and most people will have no idea that they can configure it and how. But this is definitely very much opinion-based, so waiting if more people complain is reasonable (people on reddit complained already, though) :-)
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #3) > Would be great to get scroll speed values from Gtk / mutter but afaik there > isn't such central settings for it. Indeed there isn't, which is super annoying in other browsers like epiphany, where it's much too slow. (In Epiphany it takes me 6 full rotations to scroll _this_ bugzilla page) Anyway, "200" for me, on my hardware, is still too slow in Firefox. I strongly suspect it's hardware dependent, which is why I felt I needed to comment on this bug. This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 34 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 34 on 2022-06-07. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a 'version' of '34'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, change the 'version' to a later Fedora Linux version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora Linux 34 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora Linux, you are encouraged to change the 'version' to a later version prior to this bug being closed. Fedora Linux 34 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-06-07. Fedora Linux 34 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |