Firefox will finally fix annoying page jumps

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Firefox 66, scheduled for release in mid-March 2019, will remember the user's position on the page as new content is loaded and existing content is pushed down.

Future versions of the Firefox browser will support a feature that will stabilize the browser window and block those annoying page jumps that happen when images and ads are being loaded in an upper section of the page, and which push the currently viewed content down and out of view.

The feature is known as "scroll anchoring" and is described in a web standard that is still in the works at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the official web standards body.

Changes in [page] DOM elements above the visible region of a scrolling box can result in the page moving while the user is in the middle of consuming the content. This spec proposes a mechanism to mitigate this jarring user experience by keeping track of the position of an anchor node and adjusting the scroll offset accordingly.

According to a tweet from Mozilla developers today, work on adding support for scroll anchoring in Firefox has finally completed after initial efforts began back in September 2016.

The current version of Firefox Nightly released today supports scroll anchoring, and the feature is expected to ship with the official release of the Firefox 66 stable branch in March 2019.


Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-wi...7784147191