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What is causing scroll hesitation with 8.0?

Firefox
TJ replied 14 àwọn ọdún sẹ́hìn
wright2
wright2

Scrolling hesitation has suddenly developed using mouse wheel and sidebar pointer. Also, typing hesitations in search box. Not having problem with other browsers. It's bad enough to force me to use other web browsers. Thinking about reverting back to earlier Firefox version. Anybody have a solution?

Scrolling hesitation has suddenly developed using mouse wheel and sidebar pointer. Also, typing hesitations in search box. Not having problem with other browsers. It's bad enough to force me to use other web browsers. Thinking about reverting back to earlier Firefox version. Anybody have a solution?

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TJ
TJ

The slow / hesitant scrolling problem seems to be an artifact of the database Firefox uses to keep track of where you go, what you do, etc. It uses sqlite databases which get fragmented over time.

There are several fixes:

Some are add-ons and work internally, such as Vacuum Places (search the addons for it).

Some are external. Speedyfox is one I just tried, and found to work quite well. I think it did a better job than Vacuum Places, but requires Firefox to be shut down before it can work properly.

Find Speedyfox using a web search.