Firefox waving when moving the page up and down

Bob St John bob at stjohn.name
Wed Dec 12 14:46:44 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 08:38 -0500, Ashley Benton wrote:
> Hi,
> Yesterday I reinstalled my system and I had a trouble, when I used
> firefox the page was waving when I moved it up or down. It did the
> same with the synaptic, package manager and mozilla. I was going to
> install again (ubuntu 6.10) but it did the same with my dvd install. I
> installed ubuntu 7.10 and everything is normal. Does everybody know
> why firefox was waving instead of scrolling? and why that would also
> do it with the dvd? Before I reinstall (completely wipe the hard
> drive) firefox was working with Ubuntu 6.10 and that wasn't one of my
> computer troubles, so I was wondering what caused some of my
> applications to wave instead of scroll.
> Thanks
> Meg

I know exactly what you mean. This is a graphical effect caused by
turning "Display Enhancements" on. I have it on in my ubuntu
environment.

Bob St. John





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