[pixelman]

Hi Slammer,
Thanks for the feedback.

The forums was indeed designed for 1024x768 screen res and above. Registered users can collapse the ads by clicking on '↑↓ Ads' under the page title. this should allow the forums to fit well in a 1024x768 screen, unless the posts you are viewing have extra wide images.

The scroll speed is a known FF bug for absolute/fixed positioned elements on the page - in our case the top controlbar. To improve performance, turn off smooth scrolling in FF preferences. Since most users have found it useful to have the controlbar sit on the top of the scrolling page, we have gone with that. Currently we are in the process of optimizing the layout such that it will bypass FF from rendering the entire page content during scroll. This feature should be available shortly. You can give Google Chrome a try. It's blazing fast on the forums.

The font size for the forum titles has been increased due to user feedback. I've done some space optimization so that the titles should fit comfortable in 1024x768 layout.