• Matengor@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    My girlfriend does NOT use her mouse wheel to scroll web pages. It’s melting my brain.

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      5 hours ago

      Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.

      Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.

      Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.

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      7 hours ago

      I’ve got a friend who scrolls webpages by middle-clicking and moving the cursor down.

      Drives me insane every time I see her do it.

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        5 hours ago

        Is she a Firefox user too, then? I feel handicapped in Chromium browsers when middle-clicking does fuck all. If it’s more than three wheel spins away, I too engage “auto-scroll”, as it’s called. Of course you can also scroll fast if your mouse wheel unlocks and spins freely but with the middle click auto-scroll, you can also go slow and indefinitely, which can be handy for longer reads or for presentation / screen share purposes.

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          3 hours ago

          Pretty sure it’s a Windows feature, because I’ve done it by accident in Chromium browsers, but only on Windows.

          But yeah she’s a Firefox user.

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      11 hours ago

      Me neither, I grab the scrollbar and speed up/slow down as i’m scrolling through the page. Scroll wheel is 1 speed.

      I also disable smooth scrolling. When I do use the wheel, I hate it when I can see text move to a position and I have to wait for the animation to finish. Nah, I want it to move there instantly, not slowly but smoothly.