Web browsers and scrolling pages

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HateEternal

Mac Metal Head
I've been becoming more and more annoyed with browsing web pages on my mac. Some pages are sooooo laggy when i scroll or even when I type in some text boxes such as this one. Are there any Mac browsers that arn't plagued by this? It happens on both IE and Safari and is really starting to get on my nerves. I use FireFox on my PC and will get it if it offers better performance for my mac. Any others?

Would things be better with more memory? Right now i have 256 in my G4 iBook, I am planning on maxing it out at some point but i don't have the cash now.
 
I have not noticed any draginess at all on either my G4/1.25x2 MDD or G3 iBook 600 using Safari, Internet Exploder, or Firefox. (Well maybe some when running FireFox or IE in Windows XP under VPC 6.1 but that is understandable.) You might start by running something that cleans out your cache files such as Onyx or Cocktail. If you like Firefox it runs well as a Native OS X application too.

256 MB of RAM is below the limit for decent OS X performance. The least amount of RAM I have is 640 MB on the iBook 600.
 
Well if I were going to pick an example of how to design a web site to make browsers look bad, that would be it. However, it does seem scroll a bit smoother and faster with FireFox 0.8.

Every browser comparison tests I have ever seen has invariably arrived a the conclusion that one browser performed better on one type of site than another, but no browser was absolutely superior on all types of sites. Your example appears to be optimized for the Mozilla rendering engine used in Netscape, FireFox and Camino. But it still is acceptable with IE and Safari on a G4/1.25x2 MDD with 1.5 GB of RAM.
 
www.anandtech.com scrolls the same for me as other sites, using Safari 1.2.1. No problem at all. Logitech MX700 Scroll Wheel mouse. G4/1GHz/1.25GGB memory.

The problem is not with that site, but on your end. More memory would definitely be a good place to start.
 
HateEternal said:
Would things be better with more memory? Right now i have 256 in my G4 iBook, I am planning on maxing it out at some point but i don't have the cash now.
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Open up your Activity Monitor and see how much of your memory is being used. I don't notice any scrolling issues with 512MB of RAM. I do wish some Apple apps scrolled faster though when using the keyboard to scroll.

I do however have graphical scroll errors since 10.3.3... I attached a pic.
 
btoth said:
I do wish some Apple apps scrolled faster though when using the keyboard to scroll.
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Can you change the keyboard repeat rate in System Prefs? The faster the repeat rate, the faster your page will scroll.
 
I was wondering if anyone else has this annoying thing with horizontal scrolling in firefox 0.8. I find my pages run off the right edge, and it doesn't give me a way to scroll on over...even when I maximize whe screen. I'm on a powerbook g4.
 
I've noticed that since upgrading to 10.3, Safari has slowed down to the dogs. It was really snappy before I upgraded, and now it runs like glue. Anyone else notice this?
I tried it on the iMac (running 10.2 still) this morning, it was way faster than my iBook. Sometimes Safari takes several seconds before it even REGISTERS that I've clicked.
 
Try Safari Enhancer and deactivate the cache. It does wonders. Also, if you have autofill on, go through and edit the choices and that could also speed things up when surfing.
Finally, there's pithhelmet which allows you to block some ads, limit or deactivate gif looping and that will also speed things up some.
Oh, and the usual cron jobs via cocktail or maintain (repair permissions).
 
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