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Aside for a peculiar trackpad issue:

Does anyone else have problem scrolling diagonally on a page that's a bit zoomed in(like on HN, you zoom in a little to read the threads)? It just doesn't move smoothly and instead does a staircase shape traversal.

This used to occur on all browsers before upgrading to Tahoe, now it's mostly fixed but still persists on Safari.

For reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hh5yjo/diagonal_tra...

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macOS seems to have a “lock direction” for trackpad scrolling on zoomed in windows. Whether you like this or not is in my experience largely a function of how much you do normally do a diagonal scroll. On the one hand it means if you scrolled in to fill a column, you don’t need to be perfectly precise with staying up and down to scroll up and not also scroll the column off to one side. On the other hand if you don’t start with a very explicitly diagonal scroll, it won’t let you scroll diagonally without stopping and starting again.

This was jarring when moving from windows where you can literally scroll a page in a circular motion smoothly. Reading text with the locked scroll made me wonder how have people not noticed this or am I in the minority of reading like this lol. I mostly use chrome so this isn't a huge annoyance anymore and hope it behaves the same on macos 27 and beyond too.

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