Firefox 3 gets smooth tab scrolling

August 15, 2007 - 4:47 pm

A quick note to share a nice little improvement that just landed to Firefox 3 development code (a.k.a the trunk): Tab scrolling has got smoother.

Instead of the rough tab by tab stepping, tabs now slide in a continuous soft movement whenever you scroll them with the mouse wheel, add a new one or change to a different tab beyond the current visible section.

Click the small Flash animation below for a quick look.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.mozillalinks.org/swf/firefox-smoothscroll.swf" height="109" width="473" /]

Comments

Adam Dempsey

August 15, 2007 4:47 pm

Looks very nice! Going to try the latest trunk out soon, not looked at it for a while.

Mike

August 15, 2007 4:47 pm

I use the trunk, and just so you know its a lot smoother than the video seems to make it. :)

If anyone wants to turn it off, set toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll to false in about:config and restart Firefox.

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Sinklar

August 16, 2007 4:47 pm

If anyone wants to turn it off, set toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll to false in about:config and restart Firefox.

Thank’s for the trick !

Patrick Burt

August 16, 2007 4:47 pm

Looks good, but I can’t help but think that I like how it is in Firefox 2. It seems to me that takes up processor power for something really…. unneeded.

Percy Cabello

August 16, 2007 4:47 pm

Mike, thanks for the tip! I guess some people may want to turn it off like Patrick mentioned.

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Cameron

August 20, 2007 4:47 pm

Dead cool, thanks for the update. This is why I

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January 24, 2008 4:47 pm

YAWN…..

wooptoo

January 30, 2008 4:47 pm

Cut the crap Mozilla. Make the scroll wheel switch to the next/previous tab, like most Operating Systems today do, NOT scrolling the whole tab bar. I’m sure a lot of people would love this and would better integrate into any OS.

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