[drivebyacct2]

(I ask this as a Mac owner), but I have to wonder how many of the "Wow, Awesome" posts come from Mac users with proper smooth scrolling. It's just awkward on a Windows machine. I was hoping for something parallaxy like Github's 404 pages.

I guess I'm on a mouse now, but even on my last laptop, the "smooth scrolling" was the regular 20px jump scrolling but with smoothing between jumps which would seem to make this still fairly jumpy.

[Genmutant]

Works smooth for me (Laptop, i7 Quad, Win 7, Firefox 14)

[nilliams]

I think the parent is referring to the actual scrolling mechanic of the browser with a standard mouse-wheel rather than a performance issue.

[Genmutant]

I didn't think of that - I actually have a Logitech mouse where I can switch between the clicking scrolling and the freewheeling.

[drivebyacct2]

Even then, in Windows, you can't scroll pixel by pixel can you? I'm not sure if you're familiar with Apple touchpads, but I've never seen anything emulate their ability to scroll at literally continuous increments. Even with my Logitech (that also switches) "free wheeling" still has a minimum increment. It's configurable, but it's just "jumping" relative to the Apple Trackpad mechanic.

[Wilduck]

Click and hold the center mouse button (scroll wheel). Notice the four arrows that pop up. While still holding the center button down, move the mouse up/down, and you'll scroll smoothly. I use this whenever I'm away from my mac.

[drivebyacct2]

Well now I feel sufficiently stupid. I haven't used that in ages, even at work or on my desktop. Hm.

[tomerv]

Newer versions of Firefox have smooth scrolling. Try running the demo on Chrome, and you'll see the problem.