Div scrolling freezes sometimes if I use -webkit-overflow-scrolling

For me, the freezing was repeatable and happened when trying to scroll up or down when already at the top or bottom, respectively. The fix was to add some listeners for touchstart and touchmove and detect these cases and event.preventDefault() on ’em.

Something like the following, where .scroller is the div that will actually scroll (changes to scrollTop).

var lastY = 0;
var targetElt = document.querySelector(".scroller");

targetElt.addEventListener('touchstart', function(event) {
    lastY = event.touches[0].clientY;
});

targetElt.addEventListener('touchmove', function(event) {
    var top = event.touches[0].clientY;

    var scrollTop = event.currentTarget.scrollTop;
    var maxScrollTop = event.currentTarget.scrollHeight -
        $(event.currentTarget).outerHeight();
    var direction = lastY - top < 0 ? 'up' : 'down';

    if (
        event.cancelable && (
            (scrollTop <= 0 && direction === 'up') ||
            (scrollTop >= maxScrollTop && direction === 'down')
        )
    )
      event.preventDefault();

    lastY = top;
});

I hope this helps the next poor soul that encounters this horrible bug! Good luck and keep fighting!