Re: anyone noticed this odd firefox glitch?

[Tony Nelson <tonynelson georgeanelson com>]

On 09-11-30 04:03:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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>   i've seen some trivial but fairly new oddities as well.  as i
> mentioned before, the scroll bar doesn't seem to act consistently.
> once upon a time, if i clicked way down the scrollbar to page down,
> firefox would, well, page down.  once.  now, fairly regularly, it 
> will blow through a massive amount of scrolling down.  immediately
> thereafter, though, it will go back to what i recall as normal
> behaviour.

I believe this is some sort of GTK problem, as it happened for me in 
F11 for many different programs (e.g., balsa, gnome-terminal, firefox), 
on my old 32-bit Athlon system.  It is happening less in F12, but that 
may just be an artifact of timeing for some underlying architectural 
issue in GTK.

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