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[ext] Yet Another Smooth Scrolling

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Yet Another Smooth Scrolling is a simple extension makes scrolling behavior with both mouse wheel and keyboard fully customizable and smooth.

Features
- The smoothing animation goes in immediate-in ease-out manner but linear speed scrolling. It responds better and enough easy to trace.
- Allows to accelerate to stride size of scroll with quick wheel spinning.
- Acceleration is seamlessly applied. Faster you spin, farther you go.
- Well detailed customization are available with slide-bars on properties window.
- You can separately set the same kind of properties for cursor keys.

<b>Just try it out:</b> http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/kataho/xp ... ample.html
<b>AMO:</b> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5846
<b>Homepage:</b> http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/kataho/xpi/yass.html
<b>Download:</b> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5846

Any comments are appreciated.
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Post by Tuxman »

Does this also apply to scrolling by the scrollbar?
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Post by kataho »

No, this apply to scrolling caused by mouse wheel movement and uparrow key and downarrow key.
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Post by pirlouy »

Thank you very much.
Smooth Wheel development was over. It's a pleasure to see someone else writes an extension like that. I'm going to play with options... :D
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Post by pirlouy »

Wonderful. A new must have. Just one thing: is it possible to have more "smoothness" ? I'm at 800 right now and I find it a bit "chopped" yet. But it's just a little problem/request.
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Post by Recall »

Finally at last, a replacement for smoothwheel!

This works fine in Minefield, but the version needs bumping and the update url needs removing as well because minefield requires secure updates.
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Post by kataho »

<b>pirlouy</b>
800 seems to be the largest value this animation method can provide.
Smoothness above this cause freeze of scrolling.
I think the chopped scrolling artifact is not by the smoothness management but is caused by lacking of frame rate. The frame rate performance owes to rendering performance of the browser, and also to your computer's power.

If you just want to make scrolling slower, try smaller stride size.

<b>Recall</b>
Thank you for your report. Now I can edit install.rdf for 3.x as soon as it's releaed as official one.
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Post by kataho »

It seems people more than I expected prefer looose smooth scrolling. So I wrote little additional code to smoothing algorithm that allows little larger smoothness parameter (up to 850). Also make the scrolling animation sort of more reasonable. It's available to try at the sample page.
http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/kataho/xp ... ample.html
Ensure your current YetAnotherSmoothScrolling add-on disabled.
I'm using it at 540 smoothness by the way.
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Post by Cato62 »

Great job! :)

I left you a review (needs approving). I hope this goes public soon! :)
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Post by Uncle Spellbinder »

FANTASTIC! Installed, tweaked, working wonderfully! Great job.
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Post by pirlouy »

kataho wrote:I think the chopped scrolling artifact is not by the smoothness management but is caused by lacking of frame rate. The frame rate performance owes to rendering performance of the browser, and also to your computer's power.

But isn't you who can change this frame rate ? my drivers/monitor allow me to have a frequency of 75Hz. So if there could be a better frame rate; it depends on this extension (or Firefox) I suppose.

If you just want to make scrolling slower, try smaller stride size.

Bah, I prefer to keep this ratio (stride=100). Like I said, it's just a little little problem.


Nice. I use 850 (and I could use 1000 :P). And the fact scroll bar keeps moving even if I don't roll mouse wheel is very nice too !
Thanks !
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Post by Soul Stealer »

I love this extension but I have run across a problem.


When scrolling in a dropdown box, like a forum jump dropdown box that has scrollbars, the box will scroll but so will the entire page which causes the dropdown box to close. Is there an adjustment or fix for this?
It's like I said.
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Post by pirlouy »

I don't have this problem. :/
forum link ? (to be sure problem is on your config, not in extension)
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Post by Soul Stealer »

Click here and go to the bottom right corner of the page. Using the forum jump dropdown works fine while scrolling downwards as the page is already at the bottom but if you scroll back upwards with the dropdown open, you'll see the page scroll. And when you move the cursor to select a forum to jump to, the box closes.


It also does it on my own site.
It's like I said.
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Post by Uncle Spellbinder »

@ Friar Tuck

Yep. I get the same thing.
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