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I’ve tried Firefox about once a year for the past five years and always immediately go back to chromium. Scrolling is always broken out of the box on all platforms I’ve tried (Linux and macOS).

Edit: trying again, the macOS track pad seems ok but scroll wheel behavior is different. Firefox requires 2-3 times the scrolling distance and transitions slowly to the final scroll destination. Chrome does not.

Edit 2: I’m almost positive it’s smooth scrolling. Some people hate it and some like it. This reddit thread sums up: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_...

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I'm so confused by this comment. You downloaded Firefox on MacOS and scrolling was broken? Scrolling itself is always broken on Firefox on all platforms?

Considering that scrolling clearly isn't broken for Firefox users (I think Mozilla would notice), doesn't that point to the fact that it's probably something on your end and not Firefox?

For what it's worth elastic bounce when scrolling to top / bottom of website has never been supported which feels very wrong on macOS. Mozilla doesn't seem to care or not care enough to patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108

From what I can tell scrolling works fine and speed can be adjusted for personal needs in macOS.

I'm assuming that you are referring to smooth scrolling behavior, since it doesn't feel quite right to me.

options > browsing >

   then uncheck smooth scrolling option

edit: It would be nice if FF had a slider to adjust the speed. The default smooth scrolling for me is too slow (my eyes jump ahead which makes me feel nauseous).

Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?

If I were to guess I think it has something to do with “smooth scrolling”. The behavior is scroll the mouse wheel three clicks/times to move the page.

Expected behavior is move the wheel at all and the page moves.

Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox.

That’s what happens on a clean install on Windows or MacOS. You might want to reset any custom settings and remove any extensions to see if it still reproduced.

> Also on a track pad the page should move in sync with your fingers. It doesn’t in Firefox.

It does just fine for me on GNU/Linux.

I use it on macOS. Scrolling is not broken; it is exactly as in Chrome.

Try disabling smooth scrolling in about:preferences

the scrolling is also pretty bad on Windows. Chromium based browsers also have gestures which I use often.

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