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    No smooth scrolling in Opera?

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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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                                      • darthagnon
                                        darthagnon @panosv last edited by

                                        @panosv said in No smooth scrolling in Opera?:

                                        sapsalis.gr

                                        Thank you for posting that website; the scrolling issue can be reliably reproduced on that page. The problem is not solved, and still exists in Opera 56. I feel that on some sites that I was visiting, it may have improved slightly, but overall, scrolling is still jerky and unresponsive in Opera as of the latest version of O56. Please visit the posted site sapsalis.gr (Greek meme site or something) and attempt scrolling, pinching-to-zoom, and diagonal and horizontal scrolling using a touchpad on a Windows laptop to reliably reproduce the problem.

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