Here’s how to prevent scrollbar jumping in Chrome. 1.Launch Chrome. 2. Navigate to chrome://flags/#enable-scroll-anchoring in your browser. Alternatively, you can navigate to chrome:\flags and scroll down until you find the “Scroll Anchoring” section. 3. Set Scroll Anchoring to Enabled.  4. Click the Relaunch Now button or manually restart your browser. Make sure any work you’re doing in other tabs is saved. Your scrollbar should no longer jump up when a large advertisement (or other image) loads at the top of the page. 

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