Add an option to disable animations

[birdie-github]

They look extremely nice and warm but they kinda slow down all the operations with the add-on - especially scrolling in History.

Please add an option to disable all animations (except maybe the one in the About dialog).

[stephanmahieu]

All animations (except for the scrollbar) are purely css based (no javascript involved) and should have no major impact on performance nor should it slow down anything.

The speed of the scrollbar can be tweaked with the scroll amount preference.

[birdie-github]

should have no major impact on performance nor should it slow down anything.

But they do. I see half a second delay for scrolling using the scroll bar. When animations are off, scrolling is instantaneous. With animations on, it's laggy. Anyways, suit yourself.

Probably I should record a video, so that you could see for yourself.

And my PC is darn fast (Ryzen 7 3700X with 32gigs or RAM).

[stephanmahieu]

I am curious about the delay you have, I have a darn fast pc too (probably a litter slower than yours) but I do not see any delay when scrolling. And how did you turn off animation to get rid of the delay?

[stephanmahieu]

I do see some performance issues with the small popdown window (left-click on icon in toolbar) specially when the pagesize is set to the max of 500 entries. For reasons yet unknown to me cpu and memory allocated to the popdown is limited by the browser and that is the main reason I have limited the pagesize in this panel to 500.

Reducing the scrollinertia helps a little but setting a smaller pagelimit of 100 entries or less dramatically improves the performance, so that is the way to go if you experience annoying delays in this panel.

[birdie-github]

It's worse than I actually described:

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If you don't want to fix it - OK, I don't mind. Currently it's just horrible.

[stephanmahieu]

That does not look so bad. Anyway I did lower the scroll inertia for the small popup so it should improve by at least a factor 3.
Do you have the same issue with the big popup (right-click, first option)?

[birdie-github]

Do you have the same issue with the big popup (right-click, first option)?

They behave identically in my case.

[stephanmahieu]

I have reduced the scrollbar inertia further down to 500ms (default was 3000). It is now available in v2.5.0.0.
Let me know if you still want it configurable (so you can set it to 0).
Please note that setting inertia to zero will still not prevent the lagging completely, that animation is not parametrized in the scrollbar component (and probably the animation is not the problem here).

[birdie-github]

It's now much much better though an option to disable it altogether wouldn't hurt. Thanks anyways!

[stevenxxiu]

I second this. For me the dialog already lags quite a lot. But also I particularly dislike any animation in UIs, unless it's just a loading spinner, which actually gives information. Having an option would really help!

[stephanmahieu]

As said before, the animations of the small icons (and large spinner) are pure css and it is (nearly) impossible to make it optional, and besides that I myself do like them, so I have no plans in the near future for making them optional.

[stevenxxiu]

It took some effort but I did manage to remove all the animations myself, besides the spinner that I didn't mind. The CSS animations can easily be removed through some global rules. JavaScript by patching the source and some jQuery settings.

This makes the extension so much more usable for me.