Forcing crop tool to not move image

In previous version of Photoshop, when you used the crop tool, it did not move your image around on-screen, so why is it doing it now? Is there a way to force the crop tool to act like the previous versions? It is very confusing to try to crop something now with everything moving around on screen.

Thank you very much, "C". I thought we had to live with this odd behaviour.
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