Chrome tabs started scrolling automatically very fast to the bottom of the page

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It turns out that suddenly, Chrome tabs started scrolling automatically very fast to the bottom of the page. Very annoying!

I have Chrome 125.0.6422.141 (Official Build) (64-bit). System is GNU Linux Fedora 39.

  • I found that this does not happen if change user.
  • It doesn’t happen with other applications either (e.g. Emacs)
  • It doesn’t happen with another browser (Firefox) either.

So that it seems to be specific for Chrome and related to some configuration issue.

Any ideas?

I open Chrome tabs and I expect them to not scroll untill I do it with mouse or keyboard.

But the tabs scroll endlessly to the bottom of the page.

Finally I found the culprit. It was the Orca package. I see that there is a program called orca that activates, so
I deactivated it. To do that, I search in KDE settings for “orca” and it turns out that
deactivating it and restarting everything seems to be OK!!

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