Chrome 49.... judder

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They've enabled smooth scrolling by default in V49 and now it judders and lags which was the reason I move away from Firefox.

The way Chrome used to scroll was perfect. Felt zippy and responsive.

(Not on this website obviously, but try a few links from here and your see it is no longer smooth as it has been with v48 and before.)

I'm clearly too fussy. :o
 
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KIA said:
A tiny amount of judder on that page.
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It's not just that page tho. In general smooth scrolling has meant Chrome has taken quite a big step backwards in feel to me. It feels like I'm using a browser with sandbags attached to it.

The way it was, was 10x better. However I have read that Google plan to remove the option to not use smooth scrolling, so were stuck. :o

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Even scrolling up and down on this page is a lag fest. As if Chrome is a step or two behind the actual scrolling.
 
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KIA said:
Fine here. :/

Have you tried a clean install of Chrome without extensions loaded?
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I don't use extensions. I just think in general smooth scrolling must use more cpu/gpu than the old implementation does.

Just feels like step back to me.

This was the primary reason I moved from Firefox, for this very reason. Although Firefox is much worse.

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For static pages it works fine. For dynamic pages, smooth scroll has introduced jank which is the technical term for it I believe.
 
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-Go into chrome://flags/ and turn it off.
-While you're there perhaps reset all other flags to default.
-Update your video drivers.
-Disable all extensions as a test.
-If you turn off 'animate controls and elements inside of windows' from within Windows Performance Options it will also turn off smooth scrolling.
 
What happens if you disable hardware decode for video? chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode

I've found that due to hacks made by chrome devs this feature can cause issues based on who touched the code and which video driver you are using.

For example having two chrome windows open and visible, one with video running, results in jerky scrolling in the other window for me today. This was not the case yesterday when I was on an older nvidia driver. This bug regularly comes and goes.

Perhaps there are other weird issues which depend on the video driver used.
 
I just upgraded to v49, and the experience is painful. There is severe lag when scrolling, and GIFS/moving images are extremely slow. It is almost like 56k with image loading.
 
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