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Re:A third way of using Linux by dormo on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:44PM (#49971269)
Scrolling is pretty bad on Firefox desktop as well. So bad that I didn't want to finish the article.

Why do people do this?

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Re:A third way of using Linux by Insanity on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:28PM (#49971700)
What do you mean by "pretty bad"? I'm on Zen (Firefox based) and the scrolling seems to work fine. But maybe it's getting resource constrained on some hardware.
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Re:A third way of using Linux by dormo on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:56AM (#49974363)
There were text-rendering issues when scrolling. Another commenter pointed out that it was actually a CSS thing. It was migraine-inducing.

It appears that they changed the CSS or font or something, because it appears fixed and the font looks different. I'll give it a read.

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Re:A third way of using Linux by prmoustache on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:26PM (#49971687)
Weird. I can't reproduce the slowness you guys experience with fennec nor ironfox.
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Re:A third way of using Linux by dormo on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:06AM (#49974413)
It wasn't slowness. It was text-rendering glitches that another commenter said were due to CSS. Since I commented, the font looks visibly different and the issues are no longer present.

Kudos to them for fixing it.

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Re:A third way of using Linux by thereisno on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:09PM (#49971562)
They only tested in Chrome.
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