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Scrolling: Chrome vs Firefox

Entropy Overload – I was using the Chrome browser on my laptop the other day (some browser compat problem). I don't normally use it; Firefox is my preferred browser. I couldn't help but notice how peculiarly laggy it felt to use. It came down to vertical scrolling: this highly common task - for any long article you'll be doing a lot of it - felt jerky and unpleasant. So I did a quick ad-hoc experiment: open up the same web page in both browsers with viewports of the same size, grab the vertical scroll bar, and wiggle it up and and down continuously so the browser is constantly redrawing text. This is a crop ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Barry Kelly @ 2010-12-20 18:27