Chrome for Android freezes when scrolling

On my phone, scrolling web pages on Chrome recently became unbearably ugly. Every few seconds when scrolling Chrome will freeze completely, apparently no longer reacting to touch input, only to come back to life a split second later.

I haven’t seen this suggestion around, and it’s the only workaround that actually worked on my Samsung Galaxy Note III Neo.

Open chrome, and type chrome://flags in the address bar.

Look for the “Touch Scrolling Mode” setting (#touch-scrolling-mode), and set it to touchcancel.

On my phone, that fixed the scrolling problem completely, and the only drawback seems to be that I don’t have that fancy decelerated animation anymore. He, it never was that smooth to begin with, so I guess I’ll live with that 🙂

Hope it helps!