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Scrollbar Anywhere

by David Pärsson

v3.1 Updated Nov 6, 2024 22.71KiB
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★ 4.31
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

This extension makes it possible to to scroll pages as if the scrollbar was right under your pointer. Just press the right mouse button (or any other of your choice) and move the mouse. If you want grab-and-drag style scrolling, just set it up in the options. The extension is based on the Wet Banana extension and inspired by Scrollbar Anywhere for Firefox. Changes in 3.1: - Allows the extension to be properly enabled when disabled. Changes in 3.0: - Compatibility with future versions of Chrome with Manifest V3 Changes in 2.17: - Prevent the configured extra keys from interfering with scrolling. Changes in 2.16: - Stop gliding when a key is pressed or the mouse wheel is scrolled. - Fix a bug where the default mouse click actions were incorrectly prevented. Changes in 2.15: - Blacklist bug fix for file URLs. Changes in 2.14, 2.13 and 2.12: - Support for Chrome v60+. Changes in 2.11: - Add a blacklist, allowing users to disable scrolling on certain domains. Changes in 2.10: - Fixed a bug where settings in open tabs were not updated.
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Reviews (31 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-30
Vallo Rähn

For some reason it does not wor at all for me...

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-10
Hunter

Only works on the settings page.

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-21
A. J. McGinnis

Wish it worked, because the premise is awesome. Unfortunately the only page it actually works on is the 'Scrollbar Anywhere' options page-- it doesn't do a thing anywhere else.

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-22
Askar Kalykov

(Had to install it again to write a review, which sucks). This extension blocked all my rightclick popups in chrome, that really sucks. I got to know this only after some days being frustrated by not being able to use any popup menus anywhere. Took me some time to figure out what extension does that. Not recommended to those who still want the full mouse, not half of it.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-01
Max Ivanov

no horisontal srkoll block draggs page in all diractions instead of vertical

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-17
Chris Vydas

no love for firefox, no updates since 2015

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-18
Brett Bolzenthal

Not sure what's up but I installed it and it is located as an extension in chrome... yet it does nothing. Nothing I do in options works... I'll uninstall and try reinstalling it once. If good I will remove the review or update it. this is a Macbook Pro

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-13

Didn't function at all.

★☆☆☆☆2016-02-17
Konstantinos Karasardelis

Scrolling is too fast and not smooth... i didn't liked it.

★☆☆☆☆2015-11-14
Dustin Abild

It likes to scroll you to the very top of the page while you're holding down the scroll button. More frustrating than beneficial. Oh how I miss Grab N Drag from Firefox.

★☆☆☆☆2015-01-18
KD H ([KOR] Hong-Gil-Dong)

no good no work

★☆☆☆☆2014-10-22
Nikkita

Sorry to say. but it refuses to work no matter what I do. I really loved the app on Firefox, and I have been going nuts without it. I was really hoping for good things, and was utterly let down. It might just be me, but I thought I should yell you.

★☆☆☆☆2014-07-20
Mario Kotlar

Since few days ago it's enough to click and release the mouse button and extension will lock in scrolling mode until you click again. This bug causes me to accidentally enter the drag scroll mode all the time whenever I miss clicking something by a pixel. It even locks in scrolling mode when clicking on a youtube video to play/pause it, or anything of that nature. edit: I tried using it like this for a few days but it's practically unusable right now.

★☆☆☆☆2013-09-19

Can't click on mail items in GMail. Makes this extension useless.

★★☆☆☆2018-08-02
Unedited

I can't scroll in places I want to scroll, only places with scrollbars. I would like it better if you could add the ability to scroll in places that have no scrollbars. I can't scroll in Discord areas that require me to scroll so that would be very helpful

★★☆☆☆2016-07-03
DrunkenGekko

Doesn't seem to work on all websites :( Scrolling behavior a little bit "wonky"... Too bad there is nothing similar to "Grab and Drag" for firefox...

★★☆☆☆2016-03-12
Kin

Has a major issue -- if there is a link under the cursor, dragging still brings up the context menu, instead of scrolling. This makes scrolling hit and miss, which totally ruins the experience. Can't this be fixed to work like the Firefox version?

★★☆☆☆2016-01-09

Can't scroll in frame (www.gazeta.pl)

★★☆☆☆2012-10-10
Daniel Huang

Awesome app. Really really useful. Drawback is that it disables some webpages' buttons and other script unusable. When I disable this extension, everything works just fine. If the kinks can be sorted out, this will easily be a must-have extension.

★★★☆☆2020-11-05
TheOutThereChannel

seems to work but at a cost.. right click paste stops working

★★★☆☆2018-11-09
Sean C

This isn't a scrollbar anywhere... Because if your cursor is over an image or link it doesn't scroll. You have to move the cursor off of those things for it to work. So it kind of defeats the purpose for me, because if i have the move the cursor any way i might as well just use the browser scroll bar. So if the dev ever sees this, please add an option to enable scroll ANYWHERE. It would also be nice to have a consistent scroll speed option, because currently the scroll speed completely depends on how large/long the page is, so the speed varies from page to page.

★★★☆☆2017-09-22

Doesn't scroll on some sites (example: mydealz.de)

★★★☆☆2016-05-04
Morgan Chang

Please add options to inverse the scrolling direction

★★★☆☆2016-05-01
Michael Efraimidis

Often the scroll bar will scroll uncontrollably.I cannot scroll into video arrows and expandable text boxes (such as reddit and youtube). I'm disabling the extension because of this.

★★★☆☆2016-02-20
Ndi

Inferior to other things I've used (Firefox Grab Drag) in the sense that it's acrolling exactly not anywhere. Youtube pages go bonkers, Start to scroll, then shudder uncontrollably. Google main page scrolls opposite. Other sites go bonkers. Either this is old and unmaintained ir it's just bad.

★★★☆☆2015-10-23
Tim Ritson

Great app but major flaw is that you cant initiate scolling over links. Webpages are jam packed with links these days so sometimes its actually harder to find an empty space and use scrollbar anywhere than it is to just click on the scrollbar. If this can be rectified though, it will be perfect.

★★★☆☆2015-08-13
Rodney

It works well enough, but interferes with a lot of things like selecting from dropdowns. Pretty much every problem stems from it not actually requiring the button to be held down. From the other reviews it seems much more useful for tablet users than PC.

★★★☆☆2014-08-01
Hannes Grebin

Would often flick back to top. It seems like a bug.

★★★☆☆2014-07-22
Jeff Piplay

buggy with latest chrome

★★★☆☆2012-10-17
wuqing L

please make Function - Anti- Use Grab-and-drag style scrolling ! and drag when clicking on URL!

★★★☆☆2011-10-29
Harl Windwolf

This works, mostly. It's just that it's still got the same quirks and issues it had over a year ago already. Personally, I really don't care for the cursor, as I prefer the default one even when scrolling. And I understand that Chrome's scrolling mechanism works very different from the one in Firefox. But what I still "miss" in comparison to the Firefox "Grab and Drag" add-on, is an option to disable the locking when I just click without dragging. I prefer the left mouse button for this, so this would often lock into the dragging mode when I click things, like media controls or other stuff (don't ask). In addition to that, it still interferes with both highlighting and dragging highlighted text.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

offscreen storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 3.1
Updated Nov 6, 2024
Size 22.71KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026