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?
The crappy scrolling on the Mac is what keeps me away from Firefox. I've tried extensions to fix it, but nothing worked. It's still laggy and slow and just doesn't feel as solid as on Safari.
Firefox 3 on an Intel Macbook running Leopard: the scrolling is completely broken. If I click on a stock, the new loaded data just scrolls wildly. Further scrolling using the scroll wheel seems to just send the page to various locations at random.
Seems like an interesting idea, but there's no way I'd use it in this state.
Firefox and Chrome are frankly not good at scrolling smoothly in step with fingers. I use FF on my desktop and phone, but run IE on my Surface because of this. Chrome is tolerable (smooth, but the momentum is wrong). Firefox sucks.
Haven't checked in on the Mac versions lately, but I remember the same experience in FF there a couple of years ago. It feels like scrolling was designed entirely around moving in 3-line chunks per click of the mouse wheel, with some smoothing done for longer continuous spins. Then they tried to bolt incrementless trackpad scrolling on top of that and it went really poorly.
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