07-02-2022 12:21 PM - last edited on 08-03-2022 03:50 PM by Jon
When scrolling posts on Facebook, there are random jumps up to 6 new posts forward. It is necessary to scroll back and look for the last displayed post (photo, video, txt). It looks like firefox doesn't remember the last displayed position before updating the cache. It is very annoying because there is always a flicker.
09-01-2023 04:00 PM
To undo the change, you can simply go back to change layout.css.scroll-anchoring.enabled from False back to True. As far as your error message, I have never experienced that issue so I can't provide a solution.
09-22-2023 12:30 PM
Was thinking to switch to Mozilla Firefox. Until I came across this bug. Uninstalled it immediately. Kinda embarrassing tbh, it's been a year...
09-24-2023 06:23 AM
My browser does this too, only it seems to trigger the next loading zone and just keep scrolling unless I can force it up 6-10 posts before it can decide to do it again. I'm about to switch back to Chrome.
10-14-2023 01:35 PM
Yeah a post from over a year ago and still not a thing fixed, they blame it on third party add-ins, extensions, and themes anything but their own shoddy programming. Shoddy programming allows third party programs/websites content interaction to misbehave. Half the time all you have to do is nudge the mouse and the content starts bouncing around to the point that you cannot even select content like a form field, scroll content into view, I would blame it on Facebook's programming however it is not just Facebook, it is any and every website.
10-30-2023 04:32 AM
I'm on Firefox 119, October 2023, and this problem still persists. I have to use Chrome to get rid of the problem.
10-25-2023 09:39 PM
119.0 did not fix an issue causing unexpected jumps in the scroll position on Facebook. I am still experiencing this issue. I tried to fix it by deleting all caches and web data and restarting my device. No result.
10-28-2023 10:08 AM
Same. It seems the jumping bug on facebook is not fixed for everyone. I'm on 119.0 as well and it's still happening.
10-30-2023 04:36 AM
I joined this discussion today for the same reason. This has been going on for a least 6 months. Why can't they fix it?
11-01-2023 07:20 PM
It is happening even worse, these days I barely could read a post, even LOOK a singles photo, because is in nonstop autoscrolling
11-18-2023 01:14 AM
I have used Firefox since it was called Phoenix but I've been using Edge for a year because of this bug. Wanted to use Firefox again so I tried the latest version (119). If anything, it's even worse than a year ago. Ridiculous.
11-25-2023 03:44 PM
still facing the jump. Version 120.0
01-18-2024 05:04 AM - edited 02-03-2024 03:40 PM
Fixed the issue on laptops and PCs Windows 7, 10, 11 etc.
Go to Firefox, Settings, Privacy & Security, Clear Data, Clear cashed web content.
p.s. It was better for a while but after that the problem still there. I agree it seems to be a FB problem. As they don't care I open in a new window every post wich seems to be interesting so they can't delete it... 🙂
01-19-2024 06:03 AM
Ridiculous, version 121.4. Still jumping and scrolling around like crazy. This seems to be "not going to fix"-issue.
01-19-2024 09:03 AM
I'm sure this is a Facebook problem, not a Firefox problem. I've discovered that FB decides it's time to update what's shown & just deletes all of the earlier posts. So if I decide I want to scroll back and see a post I'd read earlier, it's gone. I think that when it does one of its "updates" that's when it jumps down.
01-19-2024 09:13 AM
That's irrelevant. Facebook and Instagram, where this problem happens, are two of the most used pages on the internet. They have been doing it this way for two years and they are most likely not going to change, and they don't care. The ones suffering are Firefox end users, and Mozilla seing their users switching to other browser because Firefox doesn't work properly on the sites they are using.
01-19-2024 09:23 AM
The auto feed update is another issue that both facebook and instagram have (in any browse, in any device), and is normal. The auto scroll problem that's happening for more than a year now is when you scroll down the news feed, firefox start to auto scroll like crazy loading a lot of posts and you can't controll that.
01-19-2024 10:22 AM
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01-19-2024 09:47 AM - edited 01-19-2024 09:52 AM
Yes,. this is true. I think it's part of the fix for the repeated auto scroll and hopscotch in the feed. Ffx 121.0.1, Mac SONOMA. FWIW, you can just hit refresh or Shift-refresh to reload the top.
01-31-2024 10:48 PM
The problem is even worse now. 😞
02-01-2024 07:14 AM
The bug is strange as it seems to be fixed one week, then resumes again for no apparent reason. It doesn't seem to be affected by or tied to Firefox updates.
02-01-2024 03:02 PM
I agree! The other day it was awful, then one day it worked great and I scrolled and read a lot of posts without any issues, but the next day it was back to awful! It has been jumping and and jumping and then jumping more, even while I'm trying to scroll back up to see what I've missed. Facebook is already selective about the posts it shows us, and if it loads these posts but jumps down the screen before we get to read them FB will think we've seen them anyway and never show them in our feed again.
03-12-2024 06:57 AM
It seems to come and go, which suggests it's not something Ffx ca anticipate or control. Must be something added or dropped in the FB feed from time to time., IMO.
02-04-2024 07:17 AM
This problem looked like it had been solved until the latest update. It's now back with a vengeance. Why? Safari doesn't do it...
03-11-2024 03:43 PM
This has been going on for nearly a year now!? What gives?
03-11-2024 03:44 PM
Make that 2 years, wth
04-03-2024 04:04 AM
Even I am facing the same issue as @readymatrimony
for my website
04-20-2024 01:46 AM
Still an issue on Facebook, Firefox 125. Does Mozilla even care about it's users? It's been like years.
04-21-2024 12:05 AM
I have figured it out! Scroll jumping is caused by ublock origin on mobile. It 100% stops when I disable the extension on Facebook. Yey 😉
04-21-2024 07:46 AM
You mean jumping on mobile app? Or/also on desktop and laptop Macs?
04-21-2024 08:23 AM
Mobile. But I have noticed it only happens to me with ublock origin on.
04-22-2024 02:36 AM
This issue might stem from Firefox's cache management or a glitch in its scrolling mechanism. Try clearing your cache or using a different browser.
04-22-2024 04:55 PM
I've not had the scroll-jumping issue on my Windows 10 Pro laptop in quite awhile. It seems to be fixed. I think it was cache-related. I still have some other issues which are not as bad, at least one of which also seems to be a cache issue. The first issue is that my feed will jump backwards a few posts most of the time when I "react" to a post using something other than the "like" button. I don't believe this is related to the cache. The second issue is that after I've been scrolling for awhile and then go into view all of the comments of a particular post, I sometimes cannot click "like" or any other buttons related to more comments. This happens not only in news feed but also if I'm scrolling a particular page (like a page that posts all sorts of unofficial news and has numerous posts every day) and scroll through a lot of posts. Because it only happens after scrolling for awhile, I believe this is also cache-related. Also, occasionally I will have trouble getting posts to load, either all posts or it will only load a few posts on a page and then stop loading. This must also be a cache issue, because I can usually just close the tab and open Facebook in a new tab and it will work again.
I think Facebook wants us to use apps rather than browsers; they can probably track us better. I think there is even a Windows app. I can't remember if I tried it once, a long time ago, and didn't like it, or not.
05-26-2024 05:44 AM
I think it has been working quite well for a while, but v126 is worse than ever! I just watched my Facebook feed autoscroll for half a minute, about a half to one page jump at a time at a nearly perfect one second interval.
08-06-2024 07:51 AM
I'm experiencing the same auto-scrolling random jumps back/forth in Firefox (v128.0.3 - 64 bit) on a Windows 10 desktop PC, on one site...
www.picturehouses.com
This is so annoying! I can physically NOT be touching my Perixx keyboard or MS Intellimouse, and the page will scoll randomly up or down, just a few bits, and it's doing my head in. I've followed all the possible solutions suggested in this Mozilla Forum Page, and nothing is fixing it.
Why is this still happening?! I refuse to use Google Chrome, and I shouldn't have to swap browsers to fix this glaring issue!
Mozilla please fix this issue!