When I use my scroll bar to scroll up or down pages it lags and jerks. Can this be fixed?
I don't have this problem with 2.0.0.4.
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Did you enable smooth scrolling? Also, be sure to check out the performance topics in the forums. FF3 is much more disk intensive so you may need to disable a couple features.
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I tried though, and it did nothing for the jerky scrolling. It's most noticeable on a long page. Can others here please test this out and see if you have the same problem?
Also I find 3.0 much slower in saving bookmarks; really slow.
I think I'd much rather go back to 2.0.0.11. Where can I find the download? When I do a search the link takes me to 3.0. I think 3.0 is not ready for prime time.
Thanks for trying to help John!
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151265&package_id...
Choose:
Firefox_Portable_2.0.0.14_en-us.paf.exe
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/Firefox_Portable_2.0.0.14_...
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
I must have missed that one.
Did you disable the session saver? That's usually the thing that causes pauses. Not sure if it remembers scroll position, but if so, then that's why.
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Well, session restore is one of my favorite functions in FF, so I wouldn't want to have to go without it. I'll just go back to good ol' FF-2.
I'll wait and see if 3 gets fixed up and then I'll give it another try.
Thanks!
Only the portable version exhibits these issues, my standard FF3 does not. Can the portable version be fixed? Not turn off a bunch of important setting, but actually fixed?
flash vs hard drive?
if the problem is from a hard drive install of FFP3 maybe, if it is on a flash drive I would guess not.
If you don't have the problem with FFP3 running from a hard drive than FFP3 is NOT the problem, it's the drive.
FF3 just plain writes to the drive more than FF2 did, there is nothing that can be done about this except disabling functions that write to the drive a lot.
There is nothing to fix.
We make the program portable, we do not re-write the code.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Your drive is just too slow to accomodate Firefox Portable 3's writing needs. Whenever it writes on slower drives, Firefox will pause. If you copy it locally (to a nice fast hard drive), you'll find it scrolling fine.
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Then FF portable is in big trouble!
I'll test it on my hard drive, that should be fast enough for anything. I'll report back.
It works fine on my lightning. Another possibility: You do know that certain pages have scrolling issues that didn't in FF2, right? FF3 has more issues with static backgrounds and long pages get really jerky. Especially with Flash. (I've actually found Firefox 3's flash performance pretty bad).
Try it locally. And try it with session store disabled. That will help determine what it is. If you have other extensions, disable them and then add things in one at a time.
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Is this possible to do after the install? If so, how?
Browse to FirefoxPortable\Data\settings, edit the INI file in there and delete the line that says "EnableSessionStore=true" (don't just change it, delete it). Then run Firefox Portable and it will ask you again.
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Enable/Disable session restore
https://portableapps.com/node/14096
the search bar is such fun
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
See this post and the "also" followup comment (which discusses the Session Store write interval).
Hope this helps. -hea
Weird, I just reinstalled with session restore enabled, and it's fine now, I don't get it?
But now I have a different problem, but since it's unrelated I'll start a new thread on it.
[edited by mod Tim, I'm thinking you meant "session restore", there is something called "system restore" but I'm sure you didn't mean that
You are correct.