Microsoft is actively participating in the Chromium project, which serves as the foundation for browsers like Edge, Google Chrome, and many others. Currently, Chrome features its own smooth scrolling function, and the Redmond company is now on enhancing this capability.
In Chromium browsers, scrolling by clicking on the scrollbar can feel cumbersome. Microsoft aims to implement classic smooth scrolling, similar to that in Edge, which will improve browser usability. From what is known, this involves allocating a separate process for scrolling so that browser freezes or mouse-related events do not affect the scrolling.
Additionally, there are reports of significant delays in Chromium when dragging the scrollbar with the mouse. It is claimed that this delay is 2 to 4 times greater in Google's solution than in the old EdgeHTML engine. This issue becomes particularly pronounced on 'heavy' websites with abundant ads, graphics, and so on. It is expected that moving scrolling from the main process to a child process will resolve this issue as well.
Some commits on this subject have already been accepted in Chromium and Canary builds, and the code has been merged with the testing branch. In earlier versions of the browser, the feature can already be activated using the Edge scrollbar scrolling flag, though crashes are not ruled out. Microsoft is also working on other parts of scrolling improvements, although it is still unclear when all of this will be released.
Let us remind you that earlier there was news about the introduction of a reading mode in the desktop version of Chrome.
Source: 3dnews.ru
