Vertical scrolling glitch
About 1 in every 40 or so times that I try to drag the vertical scroll bar with my left mouse button, it acts like I have clicked UNDER the scroller and starts scrolling down quickly until I release the mouse button. This NEVER happens in Chrome or other programs. It always works properly the next time I drag it.
Potentially related: About 1 in every 75 or so times that I try to drag the vertical scroll bar with my left mouse button, the scroller doesn't stay under my mouse cursor. It moves about half as fast. This makes it impossible for me to scroll to the bottom of the page because my mouse cursor gets to the bottom before the scroller, which means I have to let go and grab the scroller again to finish scrolling down. The scroller always stays with my mouse cursor on the 2nd attempt.
I've attached a pic showing what i'm calling the "scroller"
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I have noticed Pluma (my text editor) has just begun having the problem now, so this might not be a Firefox issue, but the fact is Firefox hasn't messed up since I disabled the hardware acceleration setting! thank you!!