Finally, Chrome has got the smooth scrolling feature which will be available to Windows and Linux platforms with Chrome 49 stable. If you’re using Chrome canary or dev, you can experience it.
If the smooth scrolling is not so smooth for you then you can disable it by visiting chrome://flags/#enable-smooth-scrolling, expect Google to remove this flag in the future, it’s not clear whether the Chrome team will offer an option in settings to disable Smooth Scrolling, which Firefox does.
Or
- Visit Chrome://flags in the browser,
- Find ‘Smooth Scrolling’ flag and select disabled, restart the browser.
A bug or request has submitted 8 years back to add smooth scrolling feature to the Chrome browser, till now this feature was available behind the flags, finally, we can able to use it in Chrome with version 49.
According to Chromium development Calendar and release info page, estimated Chrome 49 stable release date is March 8th, 2016.
READ: Google Chrome version 48, 49 and 50 stable release dates revealed
Note: Mac version of Chrome has currently keyboard scrolling enabled, but not mouse wheel scrolling (?).
Do you feel scrolling in Chrome is slow and laggy at the moment? Will you appreciate Google efforts to add smooth scrolling feature to the browser? Will you use it or disable it? After all, it is number 8 on the old open feature list and 16th on the most open bug starred list.
The update enabling this feature has hit stable. It’s super buggy and slow. I had to disable it. Thanks for the sharing the flag for it.
You’re welcome brr. I am also disabled that feature.
Actually, it’s not buggy. It’s supposed to be slow like that. When you go one unit of scroll, rather than clicking immediately in place, it intentionally responds by going gradually. That’s the whole point of smooth scroll, and it’s absurd.
I don’t believe that anyone actually likes it better this way. Developers just don’t get enough people complaining so they assume some people like it, and for Google, that means they assume everyone likes it and eventually they make it mandatory.
The only way smooth scrolling could stop being laggy is if you change the way scrolling works in hardware, drivers, and systems to make a mouse behave like a touchscreen. This is far too fundamental and pointless of a change just to make some useless feature stop being laggy, so don’t expect it to ever happen. Just expect Google to shove this down your throat until your will is defeated.
Drew thanks for sharing opinion about chrome smooth scrolling feature, but Smooth scrolling feature enabled by default in Firefox from so long works fine without any lagging, we don’t even notice the feature enabled unless we check advanced options.
I hate smooth scrolling. It completely ignores my wheel setting (6 lines per scroll instead of the awful and slow 3). Hate it. Can’t stand it. Ban it from the interwebs.
Thanks! I has disabled it.
You’re welcome Louis Yang.