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Tab Wheel Scroll

by jonathan.plantey

v2.2 Updated Sep 11, 2025 31.62KiB
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Description

Usage to scroll through your open tabs ---------------------------------------- Way 1 : Press ALT Key + mouse wheel Way 2 : Press mouse right button + mouse wheel When you scroll your mouse has to be anywhere over the page but not over the tabs. Also, if you once disabled the extension and re-enable it, all the tabs has to be reloaded to register the event (restart chrome is fine). Where it does not works ------------------------------------ - Internal "chrome://" pages or "https://chrome.google.com/*" pages. - Search results pages (like "https://www.google.com/search?q=test") if you didn't allow the extension to access this kind of pages on the settings page. It's open source ! ---------------------------- Feel free to contribute https://github.com/johndodev/TabWheelScroll
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Reviews (48 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-06
Evan Zab

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-17
Petr Zavřel

because i cannot give less. It does not work.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-15
Paweł Steller

Dont work

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-15
Karl Breault

Sorry but it doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-11
Angel Vazquez

Doesnt work :(

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-08
Nikola Mirkovic

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-06
鹽巴

not working at 2023/10/6

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-13
Julian myself

It simply does NOT work at all! (June 2023, on Windows)

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-01
ٌّ ٌّ

Literally does not work at all. Hasn't been updated in years

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-19
Chris Pque

Doesn't work on some sites like Reddit.com

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-30
Kousuke/eki M

not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-08
Chematronix Quarantamila

Tab switching is not possible with extensions anymore. I had to make an AutoHotkey script to get it: https://gist.github.com/Chematronix/5d7e12f7e580652aac46dc8080906e4f

★☆☆☆☆2019-03-26
Vladimir Afaunov

NEW UPDATE - Doesn't work. Not updated to match the Chrome updates that made it incompatible. This used to be a very useful plugin for Mozilla Firefox and Chrome too. But it no longer works with latest versions of browsers (for a year at least).

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-28
Paula

Doesn't work AT ALL.

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-11
SkillUp Gaming

Does nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-10
Kostiantyn Draliuk

Doesn't work (Windows 10, Google Chrome 62.0.3202.94)

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-01
Mikhail Savin

doesn't work too

★☆☆☆☆2017-09-04
Walter Duncan

doesn't work windows 10 Chrome Version 60.0.3112.113 (Official Build) (64-bit)

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-13
Tom Paine

Doesn't work on OS X

★☆☆☆☆2016-12-07
Greg Malinowski

Not working on Chrome version Version 55.0.2883.75 m

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-01
Yuri Gonchar

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-28
Bram Hoonhout

Does not work consistently

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-09
Matt Fitzgerald

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2016-08-29

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2016-06-21
Ronald Harvey

Absolutely does nothing. What a POS.

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-29
一輪伊嚕恩

it cant work

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-22
Alex McMillan

Does not work on chrome os x

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-22
Ray Ryu (류비)

Just doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-17
Bigturt Dan

sorry unfortunately doesn't work!

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-04
Alexandre Gaudreau

As of (April 03th 2016) with Chrome 64bit v49 on Windows 10, I can confirm that this extention doesn't work no matter on what kind of page I am, that I try to hold (Rightclick + Wheel) or (Alt + Wheel) and I see that all post here seems to be from 1-2 years ago so I guess it is now broken. I had to use instead (MouseWheelTabScroll4Chrome) and it is even better considering I don't have to hold a key. It's unfortunate that Google didn't implement this by default, and at least on Firefox you can do it with a simple extention without having to mess around or hold a button.

★☆☆☆☆2016-03-12
Sarah Valentine

Much like everyone else, was hopeful but the extension didn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2015-12-31
Aynur Safiullin

doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2015-12-22
buchtak

Does not work at all. Pity.

★☆☆☆☆2015-12-03
Piano Wrangler

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2015-11-15
Eqbal Vakilzadeh

Doesn't work!!! Simple as that

★☆☆☆☆2015-10-15
Franco C

does not work

★☆☆☆☆2015-09-17
Pierre Mayer

Doesn't work for me.

★★☆☆☆2026-01-17
Daniel Sussex

Not working atmo sadly, hopefully the dev can find a way to get round recent changes.

★★☆☆☆2021-03-05
Newtomic

It work's (sort of)... 1- it needs the pages to be fully loaded, so it's not compatible with extensions like "The Great Suspender" for example. 2- it doesn't work in chrome special tabs like chrome:// etc.

★★☆☆☆2019-08-23
皮皮shrimp

not usable on 2019-8-23 22:09

★★☆☆☆2018-04-17
Darko

No longer works properly (Chrome 65), switches only to the first left tab and then stops. Does not work in opposite right direction at all.

★★☆☆☆2017-12-18
H. H.

Not working on OSX, even after restarting Chrome and creating new tabs

★★☆☆☆2017-02-26
김선형

not work.

★★☆☆☆2016-06-09
To Lo

not working

★★☆☆☆2015-12-18
Cleydyr Albuquerque

Doesn't work. Installed and tried on my MacBook Pro (early 2011) and nothing happened. Sad.

★★☆☆☆2015-10-23
Julia Murphy

Right click+mouse wheel did not work with my mouse. No function change at all.

★★★☆☆2015-02-14
Kon Radical

It would be better if you could simply hover the mouse cursor over any tab, and then switch between tabs (left or right) by scrolling the mouse wheel. And as stated in the other comment below, if you could also do a full circle, meaning that, when you get to the end of the tabs (left end or right end) you could carry on through to the other side. (So, if you are at the far right end, you would carry on through to the far left end) It's good to have more options.

★★★☆☆2014-12-05
Denis Gordo

It used to work before but thanks to Google Chrome Team it doesn't work any more :(

Permissions (2)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 2.2
Updated Sep 11, 2025
Size 31.62KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026