Smooth Key Scroll Chrome extension icon

Smooth Key Scroll

👥 20K+ users
📦 v2.8.5
💾 365KiB
📅 2023-10-05
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Overview

Smooth Key Scroll enables smooth and responsive scrolling with the keyboard on every page.

- Arrow keys to move arround with adjustable speed
- Control (ctrl) and Option (alt) to modify speed
- Power scrolling keys (vim, gamer, ergonomic)
- Option to disable mouse hover effects

Issues & Suggestions: https://github.com/smoothkeyscroll/issues/issues

Changes
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v2.8.5
- Fix regression introduced in v2.8.4 which prevented scrolling on some websites

v2.8.4
- Fix scrolling container detection affecting some websites like https://docs.readthedocs.io

v2.8.2
- Fix issue cause slow scrolling in some websites like for example imdb.com
- Upgrade to manifest v3
- Make extension icon open the options page when pressed

v2.8.0
- Option to disable the extension on certain websites (blacklist)

v2.7.1
- Prevent welcome page from opening again when extension is installed multiple times in different browsers using the same user profile

v2.7.0
- Make advanced features free

v2.6.6
- Really remove hardcoded IPN URL

v2.6.5
- Remove hardcoded IPN URL

v2.6.4
- Update API URL

v2.6.1
- Fix bug introduced in Chrome 61 which prevented scrolling.

v2.6.0
- Automatically find scroll element on pages with unconventional scroll (google photos, microsoft team services, etc)

v2.5.1
- Fix document.body scrolling detection on edge cases

v2.5.0
- Switch to less obtrusive scrolling detection algorithm
- Fix problem with Team Foundation Server

v2.4.1
- Add support for iframes

v2.4
- Don't scroll on google search results page when blue arrow is enabled
- Add option to disable blue arrow on google instant search

v2.3
- Fix horizontal scrolling issue in Google Photos
- Fix https://smashingboxes.github.io/OwlCarousel2/demos/basic.html

v2.2
- Improve scrolling engine to allow scroll in gmail, vk.com, etc..
- Improve scrolling performance by removing scroll check on every key repeat

v2.1
- Fix scroll locking when usind find/search in page.
Currently the only solution is to scroll normally when searching
When google fixes this issue we may be able to re-enable smooth scroll:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=529050&thanks=529050&ts=1441646441
- Fix rare ocasion when smooth scroll would not activate after pressing the shift key in a shortcut

v2.0
- Complete re-write
- Alternative directional keys (Vim, Gamer, Ergonomic)
- Options to prevent hover effects while scrolling

v1.0.6
- Fix Ctrl and Alt keys on Linux

v1.0.5
- Fix page not scrolling in Chrome 40

v1.0.4
- Selecting text with Shift is now possible anywhere on the page
- Fix alt and ctrl speed sliders regression (options page)

v1.0.3
- Fix alt-left/right functionality on windows (and other default shortcuts)
- Allow alt key to be pressed and released while scrolling without changing focus to the menu (Windows)

v1.0
- Options page with adjustable speeds
- Fix issue with Flash
- New icon

v0.2
- Fix speed getting stuck should page loose focus
- Fix collision between meta key and browser native functionality

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