Google Chrome Scrolling Issues
September 8, 2008 – 7:48 pmAfter much enthusiasm from the geeks at work about Google’s new browser, Chrome, I decided to give it a shot. So far I’m impressed and depressed. Chrome’s speed is almost unrivaled. Unfortunately, one of the most important features to me, scrolling, does not work properly.
I have a Dell E1505 laptop which has a Synaptics pointing device. The touchpad is configured so that you can accelerate your finger across the right or bottom edge of the pad and it will auto-scroll in the direction you moved your finger.
My Gmail account has a ton of labels and therefore the main page is lengthly. I successfully auto-scrolled to the bottom of the page and was then unable to scroll back up using this same feature! Other websites viewed in Chrome yield the same saddening result. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and all other apps on my computer do not have this issue.
Demo of Working Auto-Scroll:
Demo of Broken Auto-Scroll:
Having trouble viewing these videos in Chrome? Me too. I was able to play the first video before I added the second one. As soon as I added the second video neither of them would play in Chrome but of course it works fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
How about a fix, Google?
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11 Responses to “Google Chrome Scrolling Issues”
it’s open source….. you fix it.
By evan
on Sep 8, 2008
Sure thing…
Show me where in the code the problem is and I’ll be happy to fix it
By Jeremy
on Sep 9, 2008
For anyone who wishes to fix the issue quickly, I have released a patcher. You can download it here:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/
Just run chrome_patch.exe. It will patch chrome.dll to fix the issue.
By Paulus
on Sep 19, 2008
I have the same problem with an Inspiron, it’s really annoying because it’s a great browser otherwise.
By Chris
on Sep 21, 2008
From what I read on Paulus’ link above, Google has fixed this issue in their development builds which means we should see resolution shortly.
By Jeremy
on Sep 22, 2008
Those who don’t want to wait for hte official release can just download the latest trunk version:
http://siliconloop.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-chrome-scrolling-bug-fixed.html
By john
on Oct 4, 2008
Just copy this into your SynTPEnh.ini file located in the C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP directory:
[Chrome Browser]
WT = “*Chrome*”
SF = 0×10000000
SF = 0×10000000
SF |= 0×00001000
SF |= 0×00004000
SF |= 0×00000002
SF |= 0×00000240
SF |= 0×00040000
LP = 0×00000020
By SKL
on Oct 13, 2008
Update: At the time of this comment, the scrolling fix still has not been released.
Come on, Google…
By Jeremy
on Oct 15, 2008
Update: This issue has finally been fixed with the latest update!
I’ll be evaluating Chrome for the next few weeks after which point I will post an updated review.
By Jeremy
on Nov 3, 2008
The demo videos in the main post now both play in Chrome too!
Thank you, Google
By Jeremy
on Nov 3, 2008