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Hand Tool

by Marani

v1.9.1 Updated Oct 15, 2025 40.5KiB
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★ 3.75
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Description

User Guide: - Refresh tab after installing to activate the extension. - Default For Windows: Press and drag Right Mouse to pan. - Default For Ubuntu: Press and drag Middle Mouse to pan. - Default For Mac: Press and Hold Ctrl and move pointer to pan. - For Stylus users, it's recommended to setup one of the buttons on your stylus to be Ctrl Key and use that button to activate panning. - See Options page for more details. (After installation, Right Click on this extension's icon, then click Options). - To quickly turn extension On/Off, pin the extension icon, then clicking on the icon will switch it on/off. - This extension works best with mouses, stylus drawing tablets, laptop touchpad (only in case it doesn't provide convenient panning by gesture). Change Log: 1.9.1 - 13/10/2025 - Update chrome manifest v3 ad republish. - Improve codebase quality. - Nicer icons. 1.9.0 - 21/04/2021 - Fix initialization bug on Mac. - Remove cursor styling. - Update option text. 1.5.0 - 18/04/2021 - Update option UI. - Update default behaviour for different operating systems. - Remove unnecessary permission request and republished. 1.4.0 - 18/10/2017 - Fix issue with Chrome 61+. - Fix extension's auto reload mechanism when extension update. *Since emitting custom Wheel Event no longer has any effect on scrolling, the extension now falls back to update element.scrollTop & scrollLeft directly, which might cause layout issues with certain websites while scrolling. *As you might have noticed, this extension also no longer works with chrome's pdf reader. After an update some time ago, Chrome's pdf readers has started to run within a hidden internal extension window and there seems to be no way for other extension to manipulate scroll position of that window. Features - Natural Sliding and Frictions. - Option page to change and preview settings. - Settings syncs across tabs. - Turn On and Off easily by clicking on Extension Icon. Hand Tool for Google Chrome makes scrolling any webpage similar to: - Pdf Readers - Photoshop Hand Tool - Google Map Panning Hand - Scrolling a smart phone... - Grab-and-Drag extension on Firefox
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Reviews (23 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Scott Luepke

Did not work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-18
Davids Gaisevskis

Can't see this "Hand Tool is Scrolling Speed is 1.0 Activated by" pale gray settings text on the dark grey background. Clicking on 'Activated by' to choose right mouse button for example, does not do anything. Hand tool title is misleading as it does not work like a hand tool in Photoshop would or any other app that would have a workplace larger than screen and needed moving around. Coordinating ctrl click (on Mac) with mouse movement is incredibly frustrating. Moving a page in desired direction often results in inertial movement in opposite direction by letting the ctrl go a little bit after finishing the move (to return the mouse back into original place for the next scroll) or the ctrl key release having a delayed registration by plugin.

★☆☆☆☆2017-09-22
dw declare

this extension WAS very useful, but it suddenly stopped working today. what the heck?

★☆☆☆☆2017-05-22
WeAreStirlingites

Does not even work. Don't waste your time downloading this.

★☆☆☆☆2016-05-29
Chris W

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2016-03-02
Tal Gamma

Doesn't work in many pages

★☆☆☆☆2016-02-02
Bella White

does not make a difference on acer chromebook its a waste of space !

★☆☆☆☆2016-01-31
katie clark

It doesnt work for chrome and what even is the piont oof it? Yes i know i cant spell.

★☆☆☆☆2015-12-24
Jinix De'Leon

DONT WORK AT ALL

★☆☆☆☆2015-02-18
VicHaunter Darkster

dont work

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-17
Doland Ruiz

doesn't work on anything except a simple html page. they don't exist anymore except for my grandmas personal on adult friend finder.

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-14
Ryan Hochstrasser

Didn't work

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-04
Gerald Lee

Does not work on the several pages it was tried on

★☆☆☆☆2013-12-20
Robin T.

It dosntwork on chromebook. DONT DOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVE A CHROMEBOOK! ITS A SCAM!

★☆☆☆☆2013-11-11

Grab and Drag worked great for many years. That seems to have disappeared. All I can find that is similar is this. It does not work at all. disappointed

★★☆☆☆2019-11-26
piqlet piolet

It doesn't allow to use basic Ctrl+C Ctrl+V shortcuts on the web pages since I switch its activator from Right Mouse Button to Ctrl+Middle Mouse Button. This sacrifice simply doesn't worth it. It's pretty handy sometimes though.

★★☆☆☆2017-03-31
Teodor Foca

In mozilla Firefox is a similar tool, but with drag and slide options!!! Please try to add more options to it - like slide delays in seconds.. o try that tool in FF and see what I am talking about. Thanks! It is a very good tool,but not yours(yet)! Lets make it better. ;)

★★★☆☆2024-03-10
David Cornell

Doesn't work in an image tab, can't scroll a big pic.

★★★☆☆2018-07-08
Joan-Angelo Enrile

Holding CTRL blocks all other CTRL shortcuts, even when the hand tool is deactivated. I can't even copy&paste without right clicking the mouse anymore. :(

★★★☆☆2018-06-11
Dean Or

This works great except sometimes even if you drag the right click menu comes up. Could be useful to add some hotkey options.

★★★☆☆2018-02-08
Isaiah Frazier

It seems to work on websites just fine but not for pdf's, which is the main reason I needed it...

★★★☆☆2017-05-14
Kazik Gawek

I found your extension actually best for my Wacom One, but what ruined everything, is that I have to use CTRL for Left Click option. Come on, I understand that it is responsible for text selection, but many pages don't have text on sides. I am the user - let me choose what is suitable for me. Also I wish that there was option to enable left click ONLY and ONLY for scrolling. Nothing else - grabbing pictures, selecting, clicking and if there are - rest of them. Anyway, Your's software was best out of 3-4 I tried. No one of them worked. Even with button.

★★★☆☆2014-10-14
Bryon Rachu

Excellent when it works. Recently stopped working for me and I have no Idea why. Tried adjusting settings, uninstalling and re-installing, and it just won't work anymore.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 1.9.1
Updated Oct 15, 2025
Size 40.5KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026