The world's most popular web browser Google Chrome will be receiving another big update this week. Chrome's latest update will finally address and fix one of the web browser's annoying features. The search giant this week rolled out a new update to its ubiquitous web browser.

The Mountain View-based company is adding new Google Chrome feature that prevents the content of current pages from skipping back to the top if the user scrolled farther down the page. Experts have a name for this phenomenon, they called it 'page jump', which has become a major headache for today's websites. The 'page jump' is distracting for readers who are midway through a web content and more likely to occur more on mobile devices due to the smaller screen space. Even more annoying for the users is that the online ads can trigger the page jump too, The Express reported.

Thankfully, the search giant now has a solution for this issue, a software update that will prevent web pages skipping back to the top as the user scrolls further down the web page. Called Scroll Anchoring, the new Google Chrome feature was first introduced and made available in a developer build last year, but now, Google is starting to roll out the new feature to the big crowd on Google Chrome 56 or the later version of the browser.

As mentioned by Google on their recent Chromium blog post, this newly introduced Google Chrome feature works by locking the scroll position on an on-screen element to keep Chrome users in the same spot even as offscreen content continues to load. The company also claimed that the new feature will save Chrome mobile users an average of three jumps per page view.

Google has also made some appeal to the third party developers to improve the Google Chrome's ability to prevent these unexpected page jumps. The company has invited developers to check out the Chrome's Exclusion API if they need to disable anchors on pages where they may be unwanted, according to The Express.

In addition, the search giant has also submitted the Scroll Anchoring mechanism to W3C's Web Platform Incubator Community Group, the main international standard organization that works on the development of standards for the World Wide Web. The new feature works by selecting a Document Object Model (DOM) node, which it calls the anchor node. Google hopes that the newly developed feature will finally recognize standard on the web and that other web browsers would also follow and implement it.

Currently, discussions on the Scroll Anchoring WICG proposal is still ongoing, and if everything goes well and the proposal goes through, the crowd might expect the new Scroll Anchoring in other browsers, which include Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari.

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