No smooth scrolling in Opera?
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panosv last edited by
@darthagnon I notice the same with specific page (greek site), but with chrome or mozilla it's good at that page. Only like "frame by frame" on this page.
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treego last edited by
Try this extension. I think it works wonderfully: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/smoothscroll-3/
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
See https://forums.opera.com/topic/23068/instructions-on-posting-about-problems-in-opera-for-computers
Does it happen on all pages? Any difference If you disable hardware acceleration?
Here scrolling seems fine.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Is this with a monitor with a high refresh rate? Using high DPI?
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panosv last edited by
@burnout426 I don't know, but if it is, why chrome and mozilla it's much better on this?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@panosv There are a few cases where Opera's UI performance is limited to 60fps. I'm not sure if this is one of them.
I tested https://www.sapsalis.gr/ with both Chrome and Opera with
chrome://flags/#smooth-scrollingandchrome://flags/#disable-threaded-scrollingboth set to "enabled", on a 60hz monitor (default DPI), Scrolling with mouse (right-side of trackpad) is really choppy in both Chrome and Opera. It's about the same. If there's a difference, Chrome might be a super-tiny-bit better, but it's super-close. It's just as bad in Vivaldi (another Chromium-based browser).When I test in Firefox with smooth scrolling though, it's smooth as butter. Tested in Edge and it's pretty smooth too (although I don't know if Edge supports smooth scrolling).
In short, I'm guessing it's an issue with Chromium. I guess depending on CPU and GPU and monitor refresh rate though, it might be better in Chrome than other Chromium browsers. But, I don't know.
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A Former User last edited by
Also requested here:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/26299/smooth-scrolling-on-battery-saving-mode
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panosv last edited by
@burnout426 "is really choppy in both Chrome and Opera" hmmm, weird, to me, in Chrome, it's smooth on "top level" (no choppy). Even more smooth in Mozilla, have nice scrolling display.
"I'm guessing it's an issue with Chromium", i don't know much about that, but maybe.
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darthagnon last edited by darthagnon
I'm trying the suggested "Smooth Scrolling" extension at the moment; can't quite tell yet if it's fixed it or not; scrolling still feels low framerate, if perhaps not quite as jerky when decelerating.
EDIT: After loading the "Opera" profile and testing out further, it definitely improves scrolling a lot in Opera. It's still a low framerate, meaning there's some ghosting (can't measure, but am guessing ~20fps), but it feels a lot smoother. What a pity Opera can't have something like this by default.
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darthagnon last edited by darthagnon
My monitor is a 1920x1080 display, not sure if it qualifies as "high DPI", since it isn't 4K, but I do have to go into a lot of older programs and set compatibility settings to override DPI scaling behaviour and set it to "scaling performed by: Application", to avoid them being blurry.
What difference should hardware acceleration make to scrolling? I have it enabled, but I've got 2017/2018 high-end laptop hardware. Opera should perform better by default than it does.
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darthagnon last edited by darthagnon
@leocg said in No smooth scrolling in Opera?:
Scrolling seems normal here, at least using a mouse.
From my day-to-day usage, scrolling with a desktop mouse feels normal, it's only with a touchpad that I've noticed "low framerate"/jerky scrolling.
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darthagnon last edited by
Further issue: sideways scrolling is not responsive at all. e.g. pinch to zoom, then try and scroll around horizontally/diagonally with two fingers. Compare performance between Opera and Microsoft Edge. Edge performs this function much better, though Opera is otherwise the better browser. In Opera, two-fingered horizontal/diagonal scrolling is very hit-or-miss, usually not working at all.
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darthagnon last edited by
After further testing, the smooth scrolling extension seems to have made minimal/no difference to the low framerate jerky scrolling, making it worse on occasion... After disabling it, scrolling went back to a more steady, but still <10fps scrolling, though now seemingly more responsive to diagonal/sideways scrolling.
I wish to submit that this low-framerate scrolling with touchpads/Windows Precision touchpads is a bug in Opera.
