Loading ...Firefox 3 gets smooth tab scrolling
Published: August 15th, 2007
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" /]
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August 15th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Looks very nice! Going to try the latest trunk out soon, not looked at it for a while.
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August 15th, 2007 at 6:30 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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August 16th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Thank’s for the trick !
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August 16th, 2007 at 12:58 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.
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August 16th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Mike, thanks for the tip! I guess some people may want to turn it off like Patrick mentioned.
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August 20th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Dead cool, thanks for the update. This is why I
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January 24th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
YAWN…..
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January 30th, 2008 at 9:20 am
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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April 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Excellent! Thank for the trick
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May 4th, 2008 at 5:25 am
How could anyone possibly consider this a desirable feature? It’s bloody awful and annoying.
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Francois BothaJune 5th, 2008 at 4:28 am
I hate this too. But I would love to see the bugzilla issue to get some idea what they were thinking.
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June 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Perrcy, please fix this .SWF Object…
http://www.mozillalinks.org/swf/firefox-smoothscroll.swf
Thanks!
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June 20th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Ack! I hate this. How do get the three rows of tabes back. I hate this side-to-side scrolling, it slows me down.
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MikAugust 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Anyone know how to disable this smooth tab scroll in Firefox3?
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Francois BothaAugust 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Mik, look at comments #2 on this post.
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