We’re sure that sometimes when browsing the web on your phone, you have encountered an instance where you’re trying to scroll down to the content below, only to have to content on the top like ads or images or headers load later and push whatever you’re reading back down. This can be annoying when you’re trying to get to where you are.
However the good news is that Google wants to kill off this annoyance in the latest update to their Chrome browser app. According to Google, “With the newest Chrome update, we’re introducing something called scroll anchoring, which locks the content you’re currently looking at to the screen, keeping you in the same spot so you can keep reading.”
Basically the browser will now “remember” where you are when you scroll, so regardless of what loads on top you will not lose your position on the page. According to Google, this feature will “save” users from at least three page jumps, but Google expects that this should be improved upon in the future.
For those who are curious about the technical aspects of the scroll anchoring feature, you can head on over to the Chromium website where Google goes into a bit more detail.