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Bug 1767439 - Touchpad scrolling on firefox + wayland is too fast / not smooth.
Summary: Touchpad scrolling on firefox + wayland is too fast / not smooth.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 31
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: ffwayland
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-31 13:26 UTC by Pranav Sharma
Modified: 2021-01-28 04:10 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 16:29:12 UTC
Type: Bug
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firefox-x11 video (6.22 MB, video/webm)
2019-11-01 00:47 UTC, Pranav Sharma 		no flags Details
firefox default / wayland (5.63 MB, video/webm)
2019-11-01 00:48 UTC, Pranav Sharma 		no flags Details
firefox latest nightly (6.47 MB, video/webm)
2019-11-11 04:15 UTC, Pranav Sharma 		no flags Details
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Description Pranav Sharma 2019-10-31 13:26:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

The firefox wayland version that comes default with fedora 31 has an issue
with touchpad scrolling. The scrolling is very fast / not smooth, compared to
other gtk applications.

This is on default fedora workstation (gnome), on a thinkpad t480.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox f31 (can provide more detail once back from work)


How reproducible:

Open gtk application that has scrolling. Scroll with touchpad.
Now open firefox and try to scroll a long web page. Notice the
difference.


Steps to Reproduce:

Listed above, can provide if not detailed enough.


Actual results:

Janky and fast scrolling in firefox.


Expected results:

Smooth slow scrolling in firefox.


Additional info:

Can try to record a video when I get back from work.
Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2019-10-31 13:35:24 UTC 
Thanks. Can you please try firefox-x11 if you can reproduce it?
Comment 2 Pranav Sharma 2019-11-01 00:47:28 UTC 
Created attachment 1631272 [details]
firefox-x11 video
Comment 3 Pranav Sharma 2019-11-01 00:48:59 UTC 
Created attachment 1631273 [details]
firefox default / wayland
Comment 4 Pranav Sharma 2019-11-01 00:51:36 UTC 
I installed firefox-x11, and was able to reproduce / confirm the issue. I recorded two short videos showing the difference.
Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2019-11-05 11:45:32 UTC 
Thanks. I think we're still missing the smooth scrolling feature in Firefox on Linux.
I'm not sure how https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1213601 is related here, can you try latest nightly from mozilla? [1]

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox
Comment 6 Pranav Sharma 2019-11-11 04:14:20 UTC 
Sorry for the late update.

Using the latest nightly does fix the scrolling issue. I've attached a video.

I'm guessing this bug is closed then? All is left for the fix to trickle into stable?
Comment 7 Pranav Sharma 2019-11-11 04:15:01 UTC 
Created attachment 1634749 [details]
firefox latest nightly
Comment 8 Martin Stransky 2020-01-06 10:00:21 UTC 
(In reply to Pranav Sharma from comment #6)
> Sorry for the late update.
> 
> Using the latest nightly does fix the scrolling issue. I've attached a video.
> 
> I'm guessing this bug is closed then? All is left for the fix to trickle
> into stable?

Did you test the upstream binary with Wayland enabled, i.e. with set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 env variable?
If so this one can be closed as upstream.
Comment 9 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 17:13:33 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 31 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 31 on 2020-11-24.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 16:29:12 UTC 
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