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When I press middle mouse button, it opens:
It is so difficult to control the scrolling. Is there any way to disable this?
Hemant
Posted 2009-09-21T06:22:14.847
Reputation: 1 390
How to disable the middle button scrolling in Chrome
Answers
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There's now an extension for this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-smooth-scrolling/oikddacoldignalphkgeppnpalkmkgbo
Earlier versions of Chrome required restarting the browser for this extension to take effect, but that appears to no longer be the case.
Tobias J
Posted 2009-09-21T06:22:14.847
Reputation: 990
this is not working for me unfortunately – anon58192932 – 2014-07-11T05:27:43.347
@yurkennis I've updated the answer to say it may no longer need a restart but I couldn't find info about the specific version where this was fixed and whether it's just Windows or all platforms; do you have a link? – Tobias J – 2015-01-22T14:50:48.403
@TobyJ Thanks! No I don't, unfortunately... – yurkennis – 2015-01-22T14:56:20.440
2Doesn't need a browser restart, but does need a page reload. – Bob Stein – 2016-02-10T05:35:51.030
This worked for me too, and yes it did require a page reload before it started to work. But come-on Chrome developers, an extension should NOT be required to turn off this 'feature', it should have been an option in the first place and one disabled by default IMHO, but should had always been an option. – Paul Gorbas – 2016-08-10T23:19:19.063
1I wish I could upvote this more then 1 time, I really disslike the smooth scrolling feature and you just made my day, thank you. – Don – 2018-01-01T11:28:57.757
1As of Version 33.0.1750.154 Stable for Windows, restarting Chrome is not necessary to take effect, only refreshing the page. Do you mind if I suggest edit to your answer? – yurkennis – 2014-04-08T21:29:55.520
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In your mouse control panel, you need to disable the middle button, if it will allow you to.
The multi-directional cursor vs a standard up/down cursor should also be because your window is too small, and has both vertical and horizontal scroll bars.
If you make your window bigger, the scroll should only be up/down :)
warren
Posted 2009-09-21T06:22:14.847
Reputation: 8 599
6He'll probably want to keep middle button for stuff like Open link in new tab. – hyperslug – 2009-09-21T06:33:50.707
3Yeah...Cant loose "Open link in new tab". Just want to disable the scrolling. – Hemant – 2009-09-21T06:41:10.660
2I guess you're at a loss then. Chrome isn't exactly a very configurable browser. And yes, middle-click scrolling there sucks (it's interestingly also magnitudes slower than normal scrolling, I just wonder why). You might be able to rip that functionality out of the source and build yourself but for a project that size it's not a pretty task to do. – Joey – 2009-09-21T06:55:30.240
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You can post a feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=-stars&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Pri%20Area%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Modified%20Owner%20Mstone
– hyperslug – 2009-09-21T07:00:05.1772I control-click for Open in New Tab :) – warren – 2009-09-21T12:14:42.687
control-click for the win! – ericslaw – 2012-05-01T20:23:48.283
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Get the latest drivers for your mouse and see if you can reassign the wheel click to a macro through its settings.
It should be reassigned to: Middle-click [very short sleep] ESC
If you can't get drivers with this feature, I suggest you write a very simple script in Autohotkey to do the exact same thing.
It should look something like this:
#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
MBUTTON::
Click Middle
Sleep 10
Sendinput {ESC}
Return
Anon
Posted 2009-09-21T06:22:14.847
Reputation: 11
tsk, no hand drawn circle? – hyperslug – 2009-09-21T06:30:11.760
@Hemant, Chrome I assume? – hyperslug – 2009-09-21T06:39:31.117
Yes. I am using Chrome. – Hemant – 2009-09-21T06:39:52.800
Obvious answer: Can't you just not press the middle button then? – Matthew Lock – 2009-09-21T07:45:35.897
3I need to press it to open the page in new tab, but sometimes this scrolling is enabled accidentally. – Hemant – 2009-09-21T08:11:14.800
The chosen answer is doesn't solve the original issue, so why was it chosen? – Simeon Pilgrim – 2013-08-23T02:43:07.213
I would also like to know how to disable this autoscrolling crap, Chrome is not configurable at all, I don't understand why it's being used by so many people. And I don't get either why the answer was accepted, it doesn't solve the issue at all. – JoePerkins – 2013-09-13T12:15:11.307
The chrome extension does solve this. Changing the accepted answer. – Hemant – 2013-09-18T04:25:48.517