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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 i...
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!
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.
- I just reached out to a friend who is an actual professional software developer (I clearly am not, as you can probably tell haha) and he explained to me that one of the factors at play here is that Windows' "The following number of lines at a time" setting isn't as granular as it seems. It's in increments of 1 and each "line" is quite a lot by todays standards where we are use to pixel precise scrolling on smartphones and tablets. So for example, you can't choose 1.5, which would be nearly perfect for me and my mouse, and in that case the Edge team probably wouldn't have to increase the percent for mouse wheels scrolling, I could just set it to 1.5. But I highly doubt the Windows team would allow us to have finer grain control of the "The following number of lines at a time" setting. So that probably brings us back to the Edge team increasing the percent for mousewheel scrolling...
- I will. And btw it's just a normal Logitech mouse (Logitech M325), in case you are also filing it internally.