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josh_bodner
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Nov 19, 2019

Dev channel update to 80.0.334.2 is live

UPDATE 2:  We published 334.4 today to more broadly disable favorites sync, which should fix some sync-related crashes that users have been experiencing.     UPDATE:  We published 334.3 today to ...
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rw1234
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Nov 20, 2019

josh_bodner Another update, still NO scrolling fixes even a week after scrolling issues were said to be addressed.

Please... just directly translate the ENTIRE scrolling and zooming behaviour from the Classic MS Edge/UWP source code...

 

To make Classic Edge, how did Microsoft take the Win32-centric Internet Explorer and make the scrolling actually better than every other browser including Safari on iOS (the OS where today's touch scrolling experience originated)?

 

You need to do the same for Edge Chromium. In part due to Chromium's weird relationship with Win32 and half-hearted attempts to make Chromium's UI platform-agnostic, it has various rendering issues everywhere across the UI (e.g. tooltips were previously rendering with incomplete borders, or the still longstanding issue of the address toolbar having a 2px grey bottom border on HiDPI screens when maximised but not when minimised). I believe these also affect the scrolling behaviour.

 

Why is Internet Explorer Mode scrolling and zooming 60 FPS within Chromium Edge but Chromium Edge's own scrolling/zooming behaviour terrible in comparison?

 

I will upload a video comparison of Edge Chromium and Classic Edge/IE Mode rendering and scrolling behaviour later/tomorrow.

 

THREAD about what needs to be done: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/What-needs-to-be-done-to-improve-scrolling-and-zooming-in-Edge/m-p/994000

 

Please make it a priority to:

  1. Make scrolling 60+ FPS as you managed to do for Classic Edge (despite being based on Internet Explorer). Chromium Edge LAGS noticeably in comparison.
  2. Fix the scroll arrows. They are Windows 7 style on Windows 10.
  3. Make 2 finger scrolling bounce within HTML "div", "input" elements. Not only the main browsing area as is presently the case.
  4. Make 2 finger pinch zooming bounce in the main content area when reaching zooming in/out limits.

If needed I will even work for free to be your scrolling QA Lead...

The quality of scrolling in Chromium Edge, in most if not all areas, is unacceptable.  You could make even Internet Explorer's scrolling/zooming perfect. You can do it for Chromium Edge....

 

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