prx984 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I'm currently trying to figure out why Internet Explorer has been doing this.I have installed IE7 on 3 computers. 2 laptops and 1 desktop. The 2 laptops I can understand would do this, but my desktop?Anyway, my problem is, IE7 has a very pecular problem where, when I scroll on certain pages, its jumpy. It lags too sometimes. IE6 did this too, but only on pages that were riddled with ads and flash crap and especially with java BS. It also seems very predominate on Googles search results pages.I have found a work around, but I'd prefer not to use it mainly because its possibly the dumbest thing I have ever personally seen. (The work around was to disable visual themes on buttons, which takes away the entire point in having a visual style IMO on XP.)I would like to know if anyone else is having this issue and if they know another work around for it. If so, post here.PS: I have also made a bug report to Microsoft talking about it. However, I highly doubt they would take it seriously because I have a PII 366 (I took IE7 off of my desktop and my laptops because of this issue and have moved over to FireFox.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esquire Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I have no problem running IE7 on my PII266 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 (edited) I have no problem running, its just scrolling on certain webpages is jumpy. It's really beginning to irritate me because theres no reason this should have happened.Are you using the XP Luna theme on your 266? If you use the Classic theme, thats why your not seeing the jumpy scrolling. Edited December 16, 2006 by Cygnus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esquire Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 In that case, allow me to elaborate: no problem with scrolling.I'm using the latest Zune theme from Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 What are the system specifications on your 266?I'm using a DELL Inspiron 7000 with 256MB of Ram and 384MB of Ram (I have 2 Inspiron 7000 laptops) with 4MB and 8MB video card (respectively, ATi Rage Pro) and they are both PII 366's. They run Windows XP just fine, and IE6 worked perfectly. IE 7 scrolls jumpy (only certain pages have the scrolling issue), Firefox 1.5.0.8 and 2.0 work just fine, as does Opera.I wish that the option in IE7 wasn't the fix. I like having the XP themed buttons in IE, it looks a lot nicer.Heres what I'm refering to:It makes no sense to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Check the third element from the end in Navigation. Who knows ?Also, it may happens if there is a resized image (it has a 2000px width but the html code says it is 300px wide).Also, check your CPU usage while scrolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 Nothing definitive on the cpu usage. Goes up, but so does Firefox/Opera. Firefox and Opera peek at 78% where as IE7 is about 80%.The image does that on all browsers, but with IE7 its the actual page scrolling. It only happens on pages with a search box too (this is what I found on a few websites) and thats where the "Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in webpages." option was questioned.Check the third element from the end in Navigation. Who knows ?What do you mean by this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Check the third element from the end in Navigation. Who knows ?What do you mean by this?It's called smooth-scrolling and as far as I remember, it has weird effects; toggle it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esquire Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) What are the system specifications on your 266?I'm using a DELL Inspiron 7000 with 256MB of Ram and 384MB of Ram (I have 2 Inspiron 7000 laptops) with 4MB and 8MB video card (respectively, ATi Rage Pro) and they are both PII 366's. They run Windows XP just fine, and IE6 worked perfectly. IE 7 scrolls jumpy (only certain pages have the scrolling issue), Firefox 1.5.0.8 and 2.0 work just fine, as does Opera.I wish that the option in IE7 wasn't the fix. I like having the XP themed buttons in IE, it looks a lot nicer.Heres what I'm refering to:It makes no sense to me System specsDell Dimension XPS D266, a PII 266 with 256MB RAM, the original nVIDIA RIVA 128 4MB AGP display card and a clean install using Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade. Edited December 18, 2006 by Esquire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 Okay, now for a question then, 32Bit or 16Bit color?I'm running at 32bit color, 1024 X 768. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esquire Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 32bit colour @1024x768 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_vilsack Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I notice same problem i had with a p3 600 with 768 ram nv5200fx 128 video...scrolling is lagging a bitHowever on my sempron 3000 with 1 gig ram and same video card as above...no problems with scrollingSo im guessing ie7 needs cpu power...so from now on with my old p3 ill just stick to ie6 to update and firefox 2.0 for browser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I have found a work around, but I'd prefer not to use it mainly because its possibly the dumbest thing I have ever personally seen. (The work around was to disable visual themes on buttons, which takes away the entire point in having a visual style IMO on XP.)That makes perfect sense, since visual themes = bitmaps, and when you're scrolling it has to bitblt them - IE7 "programmers" probably wrote their own software-bitblt routines that completely bypasses the hardware bitblt (several orders of magnitude faster) that's been in every video chip since the early 1980s.I ask, do you really care how a couple of buttons look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) I have found a work around, but I'd prefer not to use it mainly because its possibly the dumbest thing I have ever personally seen. (The work around was to disable visual themes on buttons, which takes away the entire point in having a visual style IMO on XP.)That makes perfect sense, since visual themes = bitmaps, and when you're scrolling it has to bitblt them - IE7 "programmers" probably wrote their own software-bitblt routines that completely bypasses the hardware bitblt (several orders of magnitude faster) that's been in every video chip since the early 1980s.I ask, do you really care how a couple of buttons look? Yah, because I don't like the Windows classic theme (plus it looks horrid how it handles that). Also, I find it dumb that IE6 worked better than IE7 on the same hardware. It just makes no sense to me.I have noticed that IE7 works better when I put my laptop to 16bit color, but I'd rather bot do that because then the icons look like crap. Edited December 18, 2006 by Cygnus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) Performance or appearance. Take one.I'd prefer the former. Edited December 18, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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