Scrolling: Vivaldi vs. Firefox

[enyap]

Vivaldi, like Chrome, generally scrolls one text line at a time. Text-line-at-time scrolling produces an undesirably jerky scrolling motion. Firefox, on the other hand, scrolls one pixel line at a time, which produces a much smoother and much nicer scrolling action.

Can Vivaldi provide a configuration option to scroll as Firefox does?

[Pesala]

@enyap I see no difference between Firefox and Vivaldi. Smooth scrolling is enabled in Firefox 68, but it still scrolls by one text line for each press of the up/down cursor keys.

[MattSolo45]

Honestly, there is a minimal difference between Firefox (68-70) and Vivaldi (2.6/2.7). It is not very visible, but it is, but I don't know if it makes sense to look for a solution to this small difference.

[Dr.Flay]

vivaldi://flags/#smooth-scrolling

[A Former User]

@Dr-Flay and Settings → Webpages → Smooth scrolling

[Catweazle]

If I have to scroll through long texts, I usually press the middle button until this circle of arrows appears, so you can move gently through the page with a slight movement of the mouse.

[Stardust]

@Catweazle same here (in Firefox)
Vivaldi linux version doesn't have this option at all

And yes, Firefox smooth scrolling is superior.

[Dr.Flay]

If changing it in the browser settings does not work.
Go into the Windows mouse settings and change from 3 lines to 1.

[Catweazle]

@Dr-Flay said in Scrolling: Vivaldi vs. Firefox:

If changing it in the browser settings does not work.
Go into the Windows mouse settings and change from 3 lines to 1.

This only makes the scroll shorter, but not smoother. It is necessary that the scroll is not made in jumps, but continuous.

[Dr.Flay]

Yeah, I am wondering in what context the chrome smooth scrolling can actually be considered smooth.
"Smoother" or "Smoothish" would be better labelling

[dude99]

My experience of both browser is Firefox is smoother but start scrolling slower/lag a bit & less responsive than Vivaldi. Vivaldi scrolling feel very snappy & responsive when begin scrolling but it feel stuttering when ending a scroll. My guess is Vivaldi just need to slowdown (ease-out) the ending part to make it feel "smoother".

[enyap]

@Dr-Flay
Windows mouse setting is already set to scroll one line at a time. Vivaldi scrolls a text line at a time. Firefox scrolls a pixel line at a time.

[junker]

I use the Chrome extension: Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller
This makes all scrolling (keyboard, touchpad, and mousewheel) smooth on Windows.