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Last year, we pointed out a fix to prevent annoying page jumps in Google Chrome that cause you to click on something you didn't want to click on. That fix is called "Scroll Anchoring", and it required you to enable an experimental flag in chrome://flags. The reason this issue arises is due to "progressive loading" of web content which allows users to interact with a webpage before it has fully loaded. However, this often resulted in off screen content loading seconds after the user began interacting with the web page, pushing down content that is currently on screen and often resulting in misclicks. Now, the feature that fixes this, scroll anchoring, is finally being enabled for all users starting in Chrome version 56.
PSA: Enable Scroll Anchoring in Google Chrome to Prevent Annoying Page Jumps
Enable scroll anchoring to prevent annoying page jumps whenever you load a new page with lots of offscreen content. Go to chrome://flags to enable it.
There are a ton of awesome features hidden away in many Google apps that are rarely hyped up namely due to a lack of advertisement by Google. One such feature hidden away in Google Chrome's chrome://flags page is the Scroll Anchoring feature.