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Request: please increase percent for percent based scrolling!
I've been using percent-based scrolling for quite a while now and although I'm not sure what the exact percent is for Edge's percent-based scrolling, whatever it's currently set to, please increase it! (at least when it comes to the notched mouse wheel scrolling. I'm talking about notched mouse wheels here). This is especially an issue when it comes to shorter scrollers, for example, the side pane in Gmail (screenshot attached below)
And before you ask, I already have tried adjusting Windows mouse wheel setting for "The following number of lines at a time", but this is not the solution. For me, when I put "The following number of lines at a time" up to 2, I find scrolling on the typical website too sensitive, so I keep it at 1. But at 1, scrolling in smaller scrollers is way too inefficient (in terms of "UX efficiency", I'm having to do too much scrolling and it feels way too slow) So I'm fairly certain the issue is whatever percent the Edge team settled on for percent-based scrolling is a bit too low! I hope this doesn't come across as disrespectful, we are always trying to fine tune, please consider increasing the percent! I always find myself disabling the "Microsoft Edge scrolling personality" flag (I believe this is how you disable percent based scrolling in Edge, correct?)
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- Can you install a different Edge channel and see if it happens there too? I'd like to figure out if this is a problem with the way your Edge install is configured.
- I can repro in stable channel Edge too.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that percent-based scrolling is the right way to go (Chrome's fixed scroll value is not ideal for shorter scrollers), it's just that it seems the percent chosen for notched mouse wheels is too low. So at the moment, for shorter scrollers at least, Chrome's is clearly too much and Edge's is clearly too little. If Edge just increased the percentage, it would be perfect!- Okay, if it's happening for multiple Edge channels for you, then it definitely seems like something Edge could be doing better with your particular hardware (and of course anybody else who has hardware like it). As far as we can tell, not all mice are exhibiting this behavior, so if you could file feedback for this issue and mention what kind of mouse you have, that would help us look into what it's doing differently.
- To be more direct, the real issue/concern here is, when it comes to short scrollers, the mouse wheel "UX efficiency" of Edge is a lot worse than Chrome's. This will result in people thinking Edge has "slow" scrolling compared to Chrome and might even drive some people to use Chrome! Please consider increasing the percent for notched mouse wheel percent-based scrolling
