Windows 10: Microsoft’s smooth scrolling for Chromium makes more progress

Microsoft recently shipped the first beta version of its new Edge browser for Windows 10, Windows 7 and macOS. Microsoft Edge, which is built on Google’s open-source browser foundation ‘Chromium’, comes with several features and it is also expected to receive scrolling improvements in a future update.

Earlier this year, Microsoft started developing ‘Compositor threaded scrolling‘ to boost performance with smooth scrolling responsiveness. The feature is available for both Edge and Chrome Canary users via an experimental feature, but it has yet to be locked down.

With Compositor threaded scrolling, Microsoft hopes to enable smooth scrolling when pressing (and holding) the scrollbar arrows. According to a commit, Microsoft is now working on a new change to enable play and pause for autoscrolling animation.

Microsoft says that the change will allow the autoscrolling animation to pause when the pointer moves out of arrow and moves back in the bounds. It’s worth noting that Chrome’s existing solution also supports autoscrolling animation, but the transition has been missing from Microsoft’s implementation of smooth scrolling.

“This CL implements that feature for the compositor threaded scrollbars,” wrote a Microsoft Edge engineer.

The commit is marked as active and it should be enabled in a future Canary update.

Microsoft has also shared the technical details of the feature:

The way this works is, when you press and hold a auto-scrollable ScrollbarPart, a callback to create a scroll animation is posted. This callback will execute if the ScrollbarPart is held beyond 250ms. On mouseup, the animation is aborted hence stopping the autoscroll. The autoscroll animation is constant and perpetual until aborted.

According to another commit, Microsoft’s implementation of smooth scrolling will also support infinite autoscrolling:

This CL enables infinite scrolling. The length of the scroller layer is monitored at every frame and if the length increases (and if autoscroll in the forward direction is already in progress), the old animation is aborted and a new autoscroll animation with the new scroller length is kicked off

In addition to smooth scrolling, Microsoft is working on at least two new features to reduce Chromium-based browsers battery consumption. Microsoft’s new Edge will gradually receive scrolling, power efficiency and other improvements in the coming months.

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What is smooth scrolling?

Hi Kenneth,

Smooth scrolling is a feature available in Internet Explorer that allows you to scroll through a web pages smoothly, as the name of the feature suggests. If this is turned off, when scrolling through a web page, you'll notice that the scroll
bar slides down as if it's slightly delayed, but if this is turned on, the scroll bar slides down smoothly, without delay.

This is useful when scanning through long web pages or articles.

To turn on/off smooth scrolling, see the following steps:

• Open Internet Explorer, click the gear icon, and then click
  Internet Options.
  
• Click on the Advanced tab.
• Locate Use smooth scrolling, and tick the check box if you want it turned on/off.

Let us know if you have further questions.

 

Chrome 34 Kills Smooth Scrolling?

Chromium Wheel Smooth Scrolling addon will do it.

 

How to disable smooth scrolling for metro apps in Windows 10?

Hi,

I suggest you to follow the below steps to disable the smooth scrolling and check if it helps.

• Navigate to System Properties by right clicking
  Properties from my computer.
• Click on Advanced and click on
  Performance settings.
• In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click
  Custom. Then deselect the following items to Disable some unnecessary eye candy:
• Uncheck Smooth-scroll list boxes.

Please get back to us with an update on this issue, we will be happy to help.

Thank you