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> HEY ANIMATED THE SCROLLING OMG PLEASE DONT DO THIS

That's always the first feature I turn off if I start a clean web browser profile. I'm not even sure why "smooth" scrolling is a thing...

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I like smooth scrolling in browsers. Easier to track things with eyes. (though OP complains about "when grabbing the scroll bar handle", which sounds horrible)

For the record, I also dislike smooth scrolling in the Start menu, settings app etc. With Edge, they lowered the animation speed from baseline Chromium to match that I think.

In Chrome it's nice at high refresh rates and looks buttery smooth, but at 60Hz it's too choppy so I turn it off there. It seems that the Edge devs have opted for a slower (=smoother) animation, optimized for 60Hz screens, whereas Chrome has opted for more responsiveness.

(giving the user the ability to tweak the scroll animation speed would be too much to ask I guess)

(disabling smooth scrolling with the "disable animations" setting in Windows is too much to ask as well I guess)

There are flags for this. There is a flag to toggle “Microsoft Edge scrolling personality” in Edge and there is a flag to toggle smooth scrolling overall.

I am aware of these, yeah - "Microsoft Edge scrolling personality" is only for touch scrolling gestures as far as I can tell, it doesn't affect scroll wheel scrolling for me.

I've disabled smooth scrolling in Edge because of this, yes.

> as far as I can tell, it doesn't affect scroll wheel scrolling for me

Nor scroll to top/bottom via the Home/End keys. In Firefox (or Chrome for that matter) it's quick enough that I don't mind the smooth scrolling, but in Edge it's comparatively and disconcertingly slow.

I had to turn it on because Edge cannot render a normal HTML file without it (Slackware linux changelog). Is is just sad.

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