When I use the down or up arrows by clicking on them once or twice etc my screen starts to scroll and never stop till it get to the bottom of a page or something. This is very annoying when trying to read something.

It is very jumpy too.
Is there a setting for this. i have looked all over in Mozilla.

I have 1.5G memory on the laptop so i dont think is memory related. but may be it is? Or display related?

Its like Mozilla looses is mind or something. I cannot click on it or do anything with it. Sometimes i have to kill it. to get it to respond.

found an add on see if that helps any...

even with the add on it still jumps around and wont behave.

Was it always behaving that way ?
Is a new install ?
Which distro are you using ?
If it is a new install did you install the driver for the graphic card ?
In other words please give use some information .

well its a recent install Ununtu 9.10 but it would do this under 9.4 on occasion. But now more and more often. It was fine under 9.10 for a while. I wonder if they patched something that messed it up.

Too I get slow response. when typing. I just noticed that while i am trying to update this post.

The HDW is an IBM R51 laptop. if the helps.

What might helps is if you do know the type of you're graphic card.
And Ubuntu do have a hardware database for the support hardware.
If you are in the terminal give the command lspci it gives you a lot of information about you're hardware and post it maybe we can help you out.

the monitor s set to 1024x768

Thank you that was the command I was looking for to get that info for you.
I was looking for /etc/X11/xorg.config but I dont have that file on my system.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)
03:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
03:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)

this scrolling issue must be a screen driver issue. Its driving me nuts but I cannot find any new drivers for this.

I am still having this issue if anyone has any more input. I dont seem to be able to find any new driver for the video so I dont know whats goin gon.

Could I be low memory? Not sure how that could be as I an only running Firefox and it still happens. Not running any other apps

Thanx

this is getting really annoying. I had to kill my firefox time and time again. It seem to just lock up now and wont respond.

I wonder if I should uninstall and reinstall it?

My system is fully patched.

still having the issue. something strange going on and i cannot figure it out.

now after updating the os (update manager ran) every so often my screen had a bunch of lines on it now and I have to reboot and they go away.