Ondrej Holzman You opened an article on your favorite website, you were already in the third paragraph, but as the whole page finished loading and the images appeared, your browser jumped back to the beginning and you so-called lost the thread. This has probably happened to everyone more than once, and Google decided to fight it. That's why it introduced the "scroll anchor" feature for its Chrome browser.
This situation is common and appears both on mobile and desktop. Larger elements such as images and other non-media content simply load a little later and can thus rearrange the page, after which the browser switches you to a different position.
This gradual loading of websites is supposed to allow the user to consume content as quickly as possible, but especially in the case of reading, it can be a double-edged sword. Therefore, Google Chrome 56 will start tracking your position on the currently loaded page and anchor it so that your position does not move unless you do so yourself.
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According to Google, its scroll anchor now prevents about three jumps on a single page during loading, so it is making the feature, which it has been testing with some users until now, automatically available to everyone. At the same time, Google realizes that similar behavior is not desirable for all types of websites, so developers can disable it in the code.
The biggest problem is jumping to different positions on mobile devices, where the entire website has to fit into a much smaller space, but users of Chrome on Mac will definitely benefit from anchoring scrolling.
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