Thanks for being part of the QuickBase Community! My name is Tom, from QuickBase Customer Care.
After doing some testing I was able to determine that this functionality appears to be entirely browser driven and is not an intended functionality of QuickBase. While this behavior does work favorably in some scenarios, it is unfortunately not something you can directly control through QuickBase.
Additionally, this functionality won't work on home pages / dashboards - likely due to the widget features overriding the functionality.
The good news is that that if you are viewing a report directly, the report will freeze the first column, but only when you are viewing the report directly and not from the home page or embed.
I have been able to test this using Chrome, Firefox and Safari. I hope this is helpful in answering your question or at least gives you a better impression of what you can expect from this feature.
Best,
QuickBase Customer Care
