Disable Chrome smooth scrolling

Question

I find smooth scrolling in Chrome really annoying.. it continues to scroll on even after I stop the mouse wheel. I tried disabling Smooth scrolling in chrome://flags/ but it had no effect.

Answer 1

If you have smooth scrolling disabled in Chrome flags, but some site still does it, it can be:

1. Site uses CSS scroll-behavior property (which now affects even navigation to next/previous occurrences of text search). Example of site doing this: developer.mozilla.org

This is very easy to solve:

1) Install Stylebot extension

2) Go to its Options/styles/edit global stylesheet, and add this rule:

*
    {
        scroll-behavior: initial;
    }

It will solve the problem for this and all similar sites.

2. Site uses some javascript library that does non-native smooth scrolling

If you can afford to disable javascript for this site - this is easy to solve (click the secure/not secure label to the left of the address bar, Site settings/Javascript/Block).

Otherwise it might be possible to solve on case-by-case basis. For example, if you usually scroll pages with arrow keys, and smooth-scrolling interferes with it - it has to catch keyboard events, so you can try to block all keydown events with this userscript (for Tampermonkey extension):

// ==UserScript==
// @name         disable smooth scroll on somesite.com
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @author       You
// @match        https://somesite.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }, true );

This works for me on one site, which otherwise adds an "ease" effect to the scrolling done by Up/Down keys.