Hmm strange, if you had an easy installation I am assuming you are using AIGLX for the rendering platform. Perhaps it is specific to that as I am using XGL and firefox scrolling is as smooth as it ever was.
AIGLX, yes. I don't know - like I say, I haven't had time to really scratch the surface of it yet. Maybe if I disable the right combination of effects it might speed up - at the end of the day, I'm surprised it works as well as it does.
A fair point, not using wobbly windows I didn't notice that. However if I turn on wobble and enable deafult snapping to on and edge attraction it seems to work fine for me. There are some adjustments under Advanced on the wobbly plugin which may be turned too low in your case.
Yeah, I'm just playing with wobbly windows at the moment - I don't find them as annoying as a lot of people seem to do, so I've left them on for now. I took one look at the number of options in the Advanced dialog and decided I had better uses for my time .. ;) I did increase the snapping distance but it still doesn't feel like it jumps to the corner when I move the window close to it (or at least not as noticably as it does under KWin) - tho I can see the effect when pulling the window away). It'll do until I have time to test all the config possibilities.
On ubuntu at least some of the more unstable/unfinished plugins come in a separate package (or actually in my case two extra packages) beryl-plugins-extra and beryl-plugins-unsupported.
Snow and water bring my GFX hardware to it's knees though.
Yeah, I thought that might be the case - a quick check of Adept confirms it (Kubuntu uses the same ubuntu repositories). I might try installing some new ones this weekend, but I doubt Snow will work - given that water doesn't. I assume that's because my gfx card doesn't support pixel shaders, but I just haven't had time of late to investigate it more thoroughly - I only installed it because I stumbled across a guide a few months ago which someone with the exact same graphics controller as me had confirmed worked easily for them .. and they were right! :)
Plus it takes a while for me to get the key combinations to stick in my head, so I'm still working on remembering the useful ones I know atm ... ;)
Peter.