The AchieVer Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Microsoft plans to bring smooth scrolling to Chrome on Windows 10 Microsoft has already confirmed that it will base its new Edge browser on Chromium, the open-source project that also powers Google Chrome. After this announcement, Microsoft started contributing to Chromium which means the company’s efforts will make Chrome better, too. A recent commit to Chromium’s Gerrit source code management by Microsoft revealed that Microsoft is adding a new feature to solve the scrolling issues in Chrome. There’s also a post by Microsoft engineer on Google products forum to detail the functionality of smooth scrolling. “This proposal is to move composited scrollbar scrolling to the impl thread so that even when the main thread is busy, users can continue to interact with and scroll using scrollbars,” Microsoft engineer explains. “By avoiding the main thread in Chromium as well, we believe we can bring the performance of scrollbar drags more in line with what we observe in EdgeHTML,” it further reads. The flag titled ‘Smooth Scrolling’ is also live in Chrome Canary and it allows webpages to animate smoothly when scrolling page content. However, it’s not clear if this flag has anything to do with what Microsoft intends to implement in Chrome. It’s not known when Google will ship a Chrome update with smooth scrolling, but it’ll probably happen by mid-2019. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbystorm Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 One of my favourite things about edge is how smooth it scrolls . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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