Public bug reported:
Wishlist: smooth scrolling extension as a standard part of the Ubuntu
Chromium packages.
I just installed the Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller extension, and I've
found that it's a major improvement in both the usability and the feel
of the Chromium browser. Previously, I kept scrolling past forum posts
and missing things. I thought it was my trackpad, but the smooth scroll
extension that I installed makes it a lot easier to track the content
visually, and also allows me to set the scroll-rate to my liking. These
are a bigger improvement to usability than I had previously thought.
I'd love to see a smooth-scrolling extension as part of the standard
Ubuntu-Chromium package set, with a set of carefully set defaults. The
Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller extensions has a number of knobs that I
can tweak, but no "reset to defaults" button. There are a number of
Chromium smooth scroller extensions out there and I haven't tried them
all, so I won't advocate for a particular one -- I just feel that this
feature should be part of the Unity-GUI experience in a major web-
browser. It really does make Chromium *feel* like the smoothly animated
system that Unity is going for, and that seems to be establishing itself
as the new GUI-norm.
This is a low priority wishlist item.
P.S. I used to be skeptical about smooth scrolling. That was before
hardware that can handle it became cheap and commonplace.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: chromium-browser 13.0.782.215~r97094-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 16 17:23:13 2011
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS =
/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
DetectedPlugins: (no entry found in the Preferences file)
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
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Wishlist: smooth scrolling extension as part of the Ubuntu Chromium
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