The good news is that it looks like Google is finally going to do something about it, and the irony is that Google will be adopting a standard Microsoft had introduced to its Internet Explorer a while ago. The standard we are talking about is called Pointer Events which has been adopted by not just Microsoft, but Mozilla and Opera. Prior to this, Google had relied on Touch Events which is the same method employed by Apple in Safari.
According to Google’s Rick Byer, he states that “replacing all touch event handlers with pointer event handlers will address the main longstanding source of scroll-start jank we see on Android.” We suppose this is an admission by Google that the issue has always been there, so we guess users can look forward to smoother scrolling in the future. No word on when the improved Chrome will be released, but it might take a while since Google will need to test it in various builds before releasing it to the public.