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    No smooth scrolling in Opera?

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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by leocg

      It's a different request. Also, this topic is not exactly a request.

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      • panosv
        panosv @burnout426 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.
        Thanks for did that and update.

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        • darthagnon
          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
            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
              darthagnon @leocg 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
                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
                  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.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    when opening that page https://www.sapsalis.gr/ and then opening Opera's task manager it shows that even when not scrolling the page is eating up inordinate amounts of CPU time and the memory usage continuously climbs and scrolling is also really bad here too using a mouse it feels like adsl days of 2~4Mb speeds not the Gigabit speed I have and it's just jerky jerk jerk all the way down the page

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @darthagnon last edited by

                      @darthagnon said in No smooth scrolling in Opera?:

                      I wish to submit that this low-framerate scrolling with touchpads/Windows Precision touchpads is a bug in Opera.

                      https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/desktop

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                      • darthagnon
                        darthagnon last edited by

                        Thank you, @burnout426 for linking the bug report website; I didn't know where it was. I have submitted a bug report just now.

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                        • burnout426
                          burnout426 Volunteer @darthagnon last edited by

                          DNAWIZ-41754 for reference.

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                          • darthagnon
                            darthagnon last edited by

                            This is really weird... I was on O_55.something (the version where you fixed that "New Tab Omnibox not focused" bug), then this afternoon, I updated to O_55.0.2994.61, and scrolling feels a lot better... Not sure if it's fixed yet or not. Will keep y'all posted.

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                            • panosv
                              panosv @burnout426 last edited by

                              @burnout426 Hi, what is "DNAWIZ-41754"?

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @panosv last edited by

                                The bug report ID.

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                                • darthagnon
                                  darthagnon last edited by

                                  Has anyone else noticed smoother touchpad scrolling since updating to version 55.0.2994.61? Using Opera the past couple of days, and scrolling with the touchpad feels a lot nicer in general.

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                                  • panosv
                                    panosv @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg Ok thanks. But for what exactly?

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                                    • panosv
                                      panosv @darthagnon last edited by amatczak

                                      @darthagnon In this page sapsalis.gr, the scrolling is really heavy. I don't know why. Chrome and Mozilla it's good.

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                                      • leocg
                                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @panosv last edited by

                                        The problem reported in this topic.

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                                        • panosv
                                          panosv @leocg last edited by

                                          @leocg the id for what problem? i don't know

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                                          • leocg
                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @panosv last edited by

                                            What this topic is about? Most specifically, the bug is about:

                                            @darthagnon said in No smooth scrolling in Opera?:

                                            I wish to submit that this low-framerate scrolling with touchpads/Windows Precision touchpads is a bug in Opera.

                                            Reading the topic may help sometimes.

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