Our web experiences depend a lot on how scrolling happens on the browsers we use—a fast and responsive scrolling need for enhanced user experience. Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web and is also the most common one. Scrolling helps in stretching beyond the available view, and if the browser is slow or gets stuck, it is annoying to the user.
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The most common issue that users face while scrolling is that either the browser is too slow or too fast. Due to this, a new option called “Smooth Scrolling” has come up, and many popular browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome have adopted it. Microsoft Edge had a lot of issues with its older version with jagged scrolling, and its tight coupling with the operating system made it difficult to bring the best user experience to other OS or even to earlier versions of Windows before Windows 10.
MS calls it “personality” improvements in Edge, which starts with its Chromium version, giving users a better “Scroll personality.” This will deliver a more meaningful scrolling experience, which is also better in performance.
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Some of the issues without Smooth Scrolling enabled in Edge
- The page down button on Edge would take you right to the bottom of the page and page upright to the top of the page.
- Incorrectly clipped content or missing content
- Broken sites
- Issues with wheel, touch, or even scrollbar scrolling took about 1 second
The new and improved Edge matches with the underlying OS to give many benefits.