Weird scrolling problem in Mozilla Firefox - Esp. on eBay

[Lee]

This weird scrolling problem has actually been occurring on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion p7-1155 that runs on Windows 7, for years, but lately it has often become so bad that I decided it's finally time to fix it for good. That is, some evenings when I'm using Mozilla Firefox (currently using version 50.1.0), to scroll down the pages of search results on eBay, esp. when I've had it set to list the maximum of 200 items per page, the scrolling is extremely difficult, troublesome, & slow - not at all smooth & fast. It's very stiff & herky-jerky. But if I change the setting to fewer items per page, such as 100 or 50, then there's some improvement - the fewer items per page the better.

What could possibly cause this, and what can I do about it? Any attempt or effort to help in any way whatsoever will be greatly well-appreciated. Thanks.

[Jeremy Nicoll]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, at 17:05, Lee wrote:
> This weird scrolling problem has actually been occurring on my PC, which
> is an HP Pavilion p7-1155 that runs on Windows 7, for years, but lately
> it has often become so bad that I decided it's finally time to fix it for
> good. That is, some evenings when I'm using Mozilla Firefox (currently
> using version 50.1.0), to scroll down the pages of search results on
> eBay, esp. when I've had it set to list the maximum of 200 items per
> page, the scrolling is extremely difficult, troublesome, & slow - not at
> all smooth & fast. It's very stiff & herky-jerky. But if I change the
> setting to fewer items per page, such as 100 or 50, then there's some
> improvement - the fewer items per page the better.
>
> What could possibly cause this, and what can I do about it?

If your machine is running out of RAM and placing more and more data in
the
external paging files, it might have this effect.

A failing disk could slow down things a lot.

Problems with anti-malware or anti-virus software, expecially those that
do real-time monitoring of system activity might be a problem,
especially if you
have several vendors' products all installed together.

If you use Firefox extensions, you may incompatible ones fighting each
other.
Does the problem also exist if you run FF in safe mode?



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[Wolf K.]

On 2017-01-04 12:05, Lee wrote:
> This weird scrolling problem has actually been occurring on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion p7-1155 that runs on Windows 7, for years, but lately it has often become so bad that I decided it's finally time to fix it for good. That is, some evenings when I'm using Mozilla Firefox (currently using version 50.1.0), to scroll down the pages of search results on eBay, esp. when I've had it set to list the maximum of 200 items per page, the scrolling is extremely difficult, troublesome, & slow - not at all smooth & fast. It's very stiff & herky-jerky. But if I change the setting to fewer items per page, such as 100 or 50, then there's some improvement - the fewer items per page the better.
>
> What could possibly cause this, and what can I do about it? Any attempt or effort to help in any way whatsoever will be greatly well-appreciated. Thanks.

The browser is downloading the page, 200 items take more RAM than 50 or
100. Since eBay includes graphics, there's a lot of data to be handling
in real time.

You say this has been happening "for years", which suggests
a) you have a slow machine with insufficient RAM; and/or
b) the hard drive is low on space, which means the page file has to be
purged while it is being rewritten; and/or
c) you have too many tabs open, which means the browser is using a large
amount of RAM (see b).

If you can, add RAM to your machine. It should have 4GB if possible.
Everything will run faster.

Also, clean up your machine. The Windows utility for this is adequate,
but 3rd party ones like CCleaner are better.

HTH

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[Big Al]

On 01/04/2017 12:05 PM, Lee wrote:
> This weird scrolling problem has actually been occurring on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion p7-1155 that runs on Windows 7, for years, but lately it has often become so bad that I decided it's finally time to fix it for good. That is, some evenings when I'm using Mozilla Firefox (currently using version 50.1.0), to scroll down the pages of search results on eBay, esp. when I've had it set to list the maximum of 200 items per page, the scrolling is extremely difficult, troublesome, & slow - not at all smooth & fast. It's very stiff & herky-jerky. But if I change the setting to fewer items per page, such as 100 or 50, then there's some improvement - the fewer items per page the better.
>
> What could possibly cause this, and what can I do about it? Any attempt or effort to help in any way whatsoever will be greatly well-appreciated. Thanks.
>

What is your internet speed?
I just move to a new place and went from 75/75 speed to 20/20. It's
not bad but when I do list store searches and say show all results, yes,
it's jerky. I'm using Chrome and Chrome may be loading as I scroll
rather than all at once, I don't know, but I just know that with the
slower speed I've just started seeing things like this pop up. Not
that I didn't expect it.

[Good Guy]

On 04/01/2017 17:05, Lee wrote:

This weird scrolling problem has actually been occurring on my PC, which is an HP Pavilion p7-1155 that runs on Windows 7, for years, but lately it has often become so bad that I decided it's finally time to fix it for good.  That is, some evenings when I'm using Mozilla Firefox (currently using version 50.1.0), to scroll down the pages of search results on eBay, esp. when I've had it set to list the maximum of 200 items per page, the scrolling is extremely difficult, troublesome, & slow - not at all smooth & fast.  It's very stiff & herky-jerky.  But if I change the setting to fewer items per page, such as 100 or 50, then there's some improvement - the fewer items per page the better.

What could possibly cause this, and what can I do about it?  Any attempt or effort to help in any way whatsoever will be greatly well-appreciated.  Thanks.

Have you tried some other browsers to test your theory that scrolling is weird? 

Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Safari

You may not have installed Chrome or Safari but try Internet Explorer.

My hunch feeling is that Ebay website is poorly designed and images should always load in the background but the entire page, that is mainly text, should load instantly and images as and when scrolling takes place.  I have never used eBay website so I can't test anything here.

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