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    Massive scroll lag in Opera - very noticeable dropped frames.

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    • adiker
      adiker last edited by

      As in title, Opera has the worst scrolling performance of all browsers for me. Firefox was always the best in this aspect, but even Chrome is not that bad as Opera. Will this ever be fixed ?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @adiker last edited by

        @adiker Any examples? Here scrolling usually works fine.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

          Here’s an example:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl

          Opera has always been choppy at scrolling. How hard can this be in 2020?

          Also read:
          https://forums.opera.com/topic/38103/smooth-scrolling-with-battery-saver-on

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          • l33t4opera
            l33t4opera @adiker last edited by l33t4opera

            Hi @adiker, @vegelund, since I'm not able to reproduce the issue in the latest Opera stable (.103) on Linux (I checked it on the Wikipedia page provided as an example), what if you disable opera:flags#smooth-scrolling, and restart the Opera, does it help in your case?

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            • adiker
              adiker @l33t4opera last edited by

              @l33t4opera Yes it's fine, but I like smooth scrolling and normal scrolling looks a bit weird to me. I guess very limited amount of people could see this dropped frames when scrolling, but for me it's definitely noticeable and not really acceptable, considering Firefox is just much better at this, barely dropping any frames. Also you should test this on Facebook or Reddit, because Wikipedia is not really demanding site so bad scrolling might not affect it.

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              • l33t4opera
                l33t4opera @adiker last edited by l33t4opera

                @adiker Yes, I see. Perhaps you may try to use it this way (disabled), until the time that probably it will be improved in some way in the Opera.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                  @vegelund Couldn't notice any scrolling issues here, both with Opera developer 68 and Opera Stable 66.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @adiker last edited by

                    @adiker No scrolling issues on Facebook here.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

                      There is no issue leocg, there is just difference in how scrolling appears in various browsers and power settings.
                      Some people and setups are more sensitive to this than others.

                      Normal scrolling is OK.

                      Could you please confirm that scrolling and frame rate with Battery Saver on is vastly worse and more choppy than normal mode?

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                        @vegelund I couldn't notice the difference in scrolling.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User @leocg last edited by

                          You are a Unicorn. I give up. Take care.

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                          • diezi
                            diezi last edited by

                            @vegelund Maybe you could give a try to the extension [https://addons.opera.com/es-419/extensions/details/smoothscroll-3/](link url)

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