Firefox Add-on of the Week: Yet Another Smooth Scrolling
Firefox Add-on of the Week: Yet Another Smooth Scrolling
Posted 10/13/2009 at 2:00pm
| by Florence Ion
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Minuscule software patches may seem like they contribute the most insignificant changes, but we’re intrinsically aware that these frequent updates are recommended not just for stability and bug fixes, but also for new features. And with Firefox, add-ons have exactly the same effect—with each new add-on, your browser increases in vitality. The Yet Another Smooth Scrolling plug-in has that desired effect; it’s a small addition to your already cluttered library of plug-ins that can do wonders for your Internet browsing experience.
Yet Another Smooth Scrolling customizes your scrolling behavior so that keyboard cursor key scroll stride is no longer short and choppy, and the default scrolling behavior is less sensitive and doesn’t act as if it’s lagging between lines. We installed the add-on to see if it really changed our browsers scrolling behavior, and to our delight, browsing through a web page felt to have more fluidity than previously before. Additionally, we noticed that when we flicked the scroll wheel, the page scrolled further than the trace of the wheel length. You can also specify three different scroll settings for any particular web environment, like a full .pdf document versus a weblog.
We did notice that some of the comments mentioned CPU usage going up an extraordinary amount while scrolling. We opened up our Task Manager and noticed that while we were scrolling, CPU usage jumped from 4% to 24%. However, we’re unsure if that has to do with Yet Another Smooth Scrolling or the fact that we had quite a few processes running. Either way, this Firefox add-on is a surefire necessity, and though it may seem all but a little change to such a giant browser, you’ll notice it almost instantly.
Download Yet Another Smooth Scrolling here.
Every Tuesday, we pick a new Firefox Add-on as our favorite of the week. Have an Add-on that you can't live without? Send suggestions to fion [AT] futureus.com with "Firefox Add-On" in the subject line.
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samson77
December 16, 2010 at 10:35pm
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Bad213Boy
October 18, 2009 at 9:36pm
I dont know, I've tried it and it didn't do anything. It could be because I'm using a kick butt mouse from Logitech. The new free flowing scrolling they have on the mouses are unbelievablly awesome. At first I was like nah, but after using it, I can't stop.
blackcat77
October 14, 2009 at 10:33am
Puts a little delay in the start and keeps going a little when you stop turning the wheel. Different but not better. Logitech has the same thing which I've never used.
jcseely
October 13, 2009 at 9:10pm
I have no issues with the way my screen scrolls while using my mouse of keyboard. Without any addons, it's smooth and scrolls a good length of page. I tried this out and found no improvement whatsoever--it was just "different."
Why are people so gung-ho over this addon?
WFUJay
October 13, 2009 at 7:34pm
My i7 920 is using 0% cpu when scrolling with this app. -_-
Sweet app though, works great.
greymist08
October 13, 2009 at 5:11pm
I've got a Logitech VX Nano, with the changable scroll wheel; click it to go from "bumpy" to "smooth" scrolling... this makes it much smoother on the program side.
gmvolk
October 13, 2009 at 2:46pm
As far as I see, this does not do anything other than putting a flashing box underneath the scroll bar.
knexkid
October 13, 2009 at 1:52pm
Damn this kicks ass. Thanks max pc! Works great for mice that have smooth scrolling wheels
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