[Issues] In-Game Steam Overlay Web Browser - Scolling is bugged/glitched.

[Donoghu]

Ever since the UI update in Steam, the Web Browser in-game (Steam Overlay) has a strange behavior. Whenever there's an header or a footer in <b>any</b> web page, the browser takes about 2-4 seconds to scroll up or down and display it.

There are also some strange behavior where scrolling fast. Sometimes, the scroll state returns to a previous (kind alike if it scroll down, then instantly scroll up at where you were when you started to scroll fast).

- I tried the change my mouse. With 6 different mouse of 6 different brands and different techs, the results remains the same.
- This is only happening with the in-game Steam Overlay's Browser.
- The problem doesn't happen in any Web browser nor (in the case of this forum) in the Steam regular App/Software, but only in the Overlay Browser.

[Metal Izanagi]

It's been like this since the UI update for me too.

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I would like to point out that in almost every game I play, when I need to search through the workshop or something about the game, being it fullscreen, I do it on overlay browser; and this scrolling glitchy behaviour it's annoying as F*.
We're almost in May 2020 and this behaviour has still not been fixed.

Basically...
One tick of scrolling, does the job, in like 10 seconds instead of instantly.
Two or more ticks of scroll, do the job, until you reverse direction, when the first tick of scroll makes you go in the direction you were before (opposite of now, that you just changed)
When you finished scrolling, the browser waits like 2 or 3 seconds, and makes one more tick of scrolling in the direction you were going before stopping...
AND MANUAL SCROLLING WITH MOUSE WORKS!?!? (scrollwheel-only bug? are you serious??)

It happens only on Steam's overlay, not any other browser, it happens with every computer, it happens on both Windows and Linux (don't have a MacBook, can't test Apple), it happens with two different mouse devices, it happens on two different physical computers, it happens to one of my friends aswell who lives at 350KMs from me, it happens to basically everyone that uses the overlay enough and pays enough attention to actually be bothered, because trust me, it happens!

Is this a coincidence? I don't think so!
We're in 2020, UI update was probably like mid-late 2019, and we still have to figure this out??

Steam devs... is it so hard to integrate Chromium's open source embeddable solution inside a gray and blue window with your logo on top of it? I mean, I could do it, probably even in Vue.js, in like 1 hour (and I DON'T know Vue)...
What's wrong with you, Steam?

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Originally posted by SMUCKEY:

I still use the old version and have never had any problems like this.

How do you do that?
Doesn't the steam app update automatically, and then it doesn't let you login and play games until you update?

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How have you told it not to?
I received a Steam app update just the other day and it downloaded automatically and it prompted me to restart Steam to apply the update...

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Originally posted by SMUCKEY:

Just watch the video and make it step by step!

I normally wouldn't trust binaries downloads from a random guy on the internet (talking about the video guy here), but whatever, I have two different antiviruses with two antimalware modules, plus a script I've written myself that scans everything every 24 hours...
If that's gonna make the stupid overlay browser work again, I might aswell call it a day and middlefinger to the Steam devs and all their stupid bugs...

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There's also a new version (cross-platform, some times it doesn't work, according to the author) right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjN6-e3nlPE

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Originally posted by SMUCKEY:

I don't know , i've been using on windows from September 2019. Never got any problem! It's just steam like it was before the update! I din't liked the new update so i find a way to bypass it!
(this is the version that im using right now)

It's not the new version of Steam, it's a new version of the video with a new method, which works on every platform Steam supports (TL;DR; the three major ones).

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All tho I just completed the downgrade successfully (the first method written in the pinned comment was the one that worked for me, triggering Steam by not letting him write the two files because they're read-only).

Yet I launcher Avorion (one of my favourite games) and I wen't in the Steam Workshop in overlay mode as soon as the game started and the same glitches are there...
I might aswell go back to the new and fancy UI at this point if the Steam overlay is so broken as F* and Steam devs are so careless to not even REMOTELY CONSIDER their software has a problem and keep developing features and UI restyles NOBODY asked for instead of addressing people's problems!!

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I still experience glitchy jumps and stops with the scrollwheel, I still experience the first tick of scrolling when changing direction that goes the *previous* direction (now your opposite);

and I still experience the "stupid mouse scrollbar behaviour" as I call it:
basically you can move your mouse inside the page you're scrolling with keeping the left mouse pressed, how much you want, and it will keep scrolling, but as soon as you leave the browser window with your pointer, then it stops scrolling until you place the mouse cursor exactly in those 20 pixels of range of width of the scrollbar.
Ya basically can "jerk" your mouse around all you want but keep an eye on not going out 'cause then you're confined in those 20 pixels until you release the left mouse, and hold it again "instantiating a new scroll session" or whatever the hell this really really really stupid and really weird bug behaviour is...

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Originally posted by SMUCKEY:

Maybe you should ask a question on the forum to which the game belongs. Maybe you are not the only one facing that problem and maybe together you will find a solution.

The thing is, that I can experience the same issues all over the place, in all games, and ONLY with the stupid overlay browser, and in ALL websites (not just Steam Workshop, but even Google, Reddit and so on!); and since it's not present in any browser but the damn overlay, it HAS to be a problem with the overlay itself!!

[GuRu Asaki]

[Issues] In-Game Steam Overlay Web Browser - Scolling is bugged/glitched.


It's not just in-game, I've been having issues ever since the Update, too
It's been like this out of Game, & it's also been like this in-Game, too

I've tried various work around ideas to fix it, but it's not getting fixed...

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The UI Client Fix is not what you think it is... It's barely a Fix at all for
the STEAM Client... If it's what I think it is, that is...

The Main Grey part of the Client goes back, the Library goes back,
the Web Helper seems to be Fixed, but everything else stays the same...

The Fix does not Fix most problems with the UI Update, but the major
thing is, it stops the Client from Updating, yes it does, but i'm not sure
if the Problems really go away 100% with the change...

For instance, 2 Problems that haven't gone away for me was,
Game Saved Data is still showing as EXE Files, instead of the way they were
before, & Controller Configs are still a total complete mess, so this
does not fix your Controllers... Though the New UI stops loading Config Notifs,
Using the Fix now loads the Config Notifications, it just doesn't fix the Configs...

I guess, you also have to worry about the fact that I read somewhere
that some Game Companies won't support the Old Client UI for their
Games anymore, either... So you would not be able to play those Games...

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Originally posted by GuRu Asaki:

some Game Companies won't support the Old Client UI for their
Games anymore, either... So you would not be able to play those Games...

Sincerily, I don't care...
Since going back to the previous UI version didn't fix at all my issue, I will probably just get back to the new slick one and don't think about it anymore.

If steam devs are just this much careless about their platform, I might aswell stop using the overlay completely; and when their telemetry data will suddenly one day show a drop to almost 1 to 2 percent usage of the overlay compared to how much games are out there, they will (hopefully) probably finally realize how much they had screwed things up with that garbage part of the program nobody will use anymore.