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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Smooth scroll should not be enabled by default

Reported by ea4...@gmail.com, Mar 2 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
Any web page

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open a web page
2. Scroll it with the wheel
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
The page should scroll without smooth movements.

What went wrong?
Many of us really *hate* smooth movements because they make us sick, affecting seriously our productivity.

Smooth scroll should not be enabled by default or at least it should be enabled/disabled with a check control in the user settings area.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? Yes Until version 49

Does this work in other browsers? N/A 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.75  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0

I know there is a #disable-smooth-scrolling flag that works ok. But as a flag, it could disappear in any moment so the user who get sick with those smooth movements will lost the possibility to disable smooth scrolling.
 
Components: -Blink Blink>Scroll
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Owner: skobes@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Steve, did we end up with a user setting for this?
Cc: e...@chromium.org rbyers@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
At this time the decision is to not add a user setting, though we will monitor feedback.

On Windows and Mac there is an OS setting that we respect, but on Linux the only way to disable is about:flags.

Comment 3 by ea4...@gmail.com, Mar 3 2016

Nice if the flag if there forever, but acording to Peter Kasting the flag will be removed in a few versions. So it *will* be for sure a problem.


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