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autoscrolling eating up processor time

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Guy
Guy

Anyone else see this? When I click the mouse wheel to enable autoscrolling, before I get halfway down the page Firefox starts eating up processor time. You can hear the fan start spinning up until it is screaming at 90%

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Anyone else see this? When I click the mouse wheel to enable autoscrolling, before I get halfway down the page Firefox starts eating up processor time. You can hear the fan start spinning up until it is screaming at 90% Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint Mint-001 - 1.0 142.0 (64-bit)

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

Do you have many tabs open in Firefox?

What add-ons do you have installed?

Guy
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Yes I do have multiple tabs open and a dozen pinned

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