Webpage edge scrolling

Anonymous
2022-10-18T07:09:25+00:00

I decided to give into poor little Microsoft's constant persistent demands to play with its browser it won't let die.
And I have to say. After a week. It's not that bad. Its fast, and it seems to use less resources than the other two
(Though I could get a bit into conspiratorial speculation about why that might be)

Anyway, A lot of great things here.
One absolutely atrocious and glaring thing that I think might be specific to my setup due to how little I can find on it.
In edge, using a surface laptop trackpad to scroll. Webpages can be pulled past the edge of their margins on any side to operate functions like page back and forth, and even from the vertical axis of the page boundary.
The issue is that on a track pad. If you're not dead vertical to the trackpad when scrolling. It pulls the edge of the page as you scroll down and makes an extremely jarring and basically unusable experience. That and the jarring nature of scrolling to the top or bottom of the page while reading and having it roughly pull up on it to snap back into place. In many cases, It just wobbles the webpage incoherently if I'm off axis enough with my scrolling. I've been in lounging positions where I have to readjust the laptops orientation to a more uncomfortable one just to scroll consistently.
It's a very bizarre design decision. And maybe works fine for others. I can see how it wouldn't be that big of an issue for desktop use. However. I wouldn't be here writing this if I could find a setting or solution to turn it off. I've spent hours over multiple days every time it becomes a hindrance to search for the settings to change this. And have come up with nothing. And no forum posts substantially talking about it.

TL;DR Question form: How do I get settings to change or disable the overscrolling on the edges of webpages???

Microsoft Edge | Speed and responsiveness | Windows 11

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  1. Paulo GM 57,295 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-10-18T07:52:03+00:00

    Hi Harawanagangsta, I am Paulo and I'd like to help.

    You can go to this experimental feature path and set it as Disabled to see if it helps

    edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T19:08:02+00:00

    Well, This would be the exact secret setting I'm looking for. If it did anything.
    I even restarted the surface. Still hasn't changed a thing with the track pad scrolling behavior.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T19:14:24+00:00

    ^__________^

    All this space is more than the margin of what the actual page boundary is set in.
    The scroll horizontal gesture function wouldn't even be a bad idea. If it didn't pull the WHOLE WEBPAGE AROUND WITH IT!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T19:27:24+00:00

    Heeeeeyyyy
    THIS IS THE MONEYI also found Horizontal overscroll page history, Which independently can be toggled on without the elastic overscrolling.
    Absolutely fantastic. Immediately a better experience!

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