Once you’ve done the above, delete everything above this line.
Steps to reproduce
- Open Obsidian
- Open the Sandbox Vault
- Open a long document in Obsidian
- Scroll to the middle of the document
- Highlight some text so you can easily see if your position unexpectedly changes
- Switch to some other random GUI app like a web browser
- Using your mouse scroll wheel, scroll all the way down the web page all of the way to the bottom
- Alt-tab switch back to Obsidian
- Move the scroll wheel one notch in either direction
- Witness Obsidian jump the viewing window to the bottom of the document in the same direction you had scrolled in the web browser
- Notice that the scroll wheel works just fine at your new position in the document
- Reposition yourself in the Obsidian document back to the middle where you were
- Highlight some text again so you can easily see if the position changes
- Alt-tab switch to the web browser
- Scroll all of the way to the top of the web page
- Alt-tab switch back to Obsidian
- Move the scroll wheel one notch in either direction
- Witness Obsidian jump the viewing window to the bottom of the document in the same direction you had scrolled in the web browser
- Notice that the scroll wheel works just fine at your new position in the document
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Yes. I followed the troubleshooting guide and did testing using the sandbox vault.
Expected result
I expect that Obsidian doesn’t initialize the viewing window in the document according to scrolling done in other apps. I have seen no other GUI apps behave this way.
Actual result
At the first mouse scroll wheel event detected, Obsidian jumped the scroll wheel position directly proportional the amount scrolled in another GUI app and in the same direction. Consequently, I lost the previous position that I was viewing in Obsidian.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.10
Installer version: v1.7.7
Operating system: #58-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Feb 14 15:33:28 UTC 2025 6.8.0-56-generic
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
To visit the video, copy/paste the following URL text, then remove the blanks in the line:
rumble. com /v6w9jve-obsidian-scrolling-bug-2025-07-16-11.06.59.html
NOTE: Your instructions say to “drop a link here” for videos, but then I get an error of “An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t include links in your posts.” Fix your website.