I just noticed this on Linux.
The v3 skin has very bad smooth scrolling in Ubuntu with GNOME as GUI and Firefox as browser.
The v5 is acceptable but can be tiring.
But v4 is very snappy and has perfect scrolling.

So using the skin version 4 solves the problem. I hope this helps someone.

I didn't notice this on Windows XP or 7. I will check out in my laptop...

And some feed about how good the omnimaga forum is scrolling in you is appreciated to know if it is Firefox in Linux fault or the skin.

To DJ Omnimaga and Eeems that can administrate the forum_ I don't know if you could help this but since using v4 solves the problem I think that you don't ought to optimize the other skins. Also I need to research a bit to pinpoint the cause.

yeah, i'm using ubuntu with gnome and firefox, and i noticed the same thing. i always use v5 anyway though, so i've adjusted

yeah it's cuz of the non-moving background. It's to be expected on some systems. I myself had no trouble on my old computer, though. My guess is that your softwares probably have trouble rendering such stuff .

I personally want to leave it as it is, though, because on the v5 skin, a scrolling bg would look terrible and break the page layout IMHO. As for v3, it's cuz it also uses images in divs and cells, so it's quite CPU intensive. Later maybe I'll try doing an alternate v5 skin with a scrolling bg, though, but idk how nice it will look. I will most likely have to set it to not repeat vertically, so the entire bottom parts will be plain blue. I'm not gonna modify the main v5 skin, though, since I kinda like its effects


the issue is generally poor computer/video card performances. On the old board, we always had a v3 style skin and I had choppy scrolling in every browser. It was far less bad than Myspace backgrounds and Youtube channels, though. However, v5 scrolls perfectly fine on my old PC. My guess is that Linux or the stuff you use under it just have shitty rendering engines for that web stuff or they don't support your video card well

Linux, GNOME or Firefox in Linux don't like the static.

Windows XP with Firefox has slower scrolling in v3 and v5 relative to v4 but the difference is not as bad as in Linux.
The computers I tested are different... But relative background is super fast in Linux (even with a older computer). Maybe a bit too fast but I am fast too. ^^

Thanks! And I hope this help other users.

Repeating the background could make the skin look better when it is fixed.

I am grateful.
Just, if it can look good when fixed would be totally nice. I just though if you edited the skin's CSS, it would only require change a line for repeating the image. I guess I was wrong.

Anyway the important is done, I realized a not so bright fixed skin comes really handy for Linux users (geekboy is right about being so bright when you switch xD) and maybe for slow computers.