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Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the frustration-free dept.

Google has updated its Chrome browser to fix the annoying page jumps that occur when pages are loading. While developers want pages to load the actual content of a page before additional ads and images appear, "the problem is that if you've already scrolled down, your page resets when some off-screen ad loads and you're suddenly looking at a completely different part of the page," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The latest versions of Chrome (56+) do their best to prevent these jumps with the help of a feature called scroll anchoring. Google tested scroll anchoring in the Chrome beta versions for the last year and now it's on by default. Google says the feature currently prevents almost three jumps per page view -- and, over time, that number will likely increase.

3 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. Just Slashdot by Garfong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only website I have this problem with is Slashdot, which wants to cover the top 3rd of my web browser with an ad.

  2. God I hope this works by jareth-0205 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It didn't work very well when I enables it in testing a few months ago, but we'll see.

    Page jumps make me actually angry. It's like a book snapping shut on you mid-sentence.

  3. The best solution for this madness is by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 5, Informative

    uBlock Origin.

    I stopped using Adblock+ long ago, because it makes all my web browsers consume more RAM, than when running without it.