Option to Disable Middle Mouse Button Autoscrolling

rseiler

Many love the feature, where you click the middle mouse button and see the page scroll automatically, but I never did.

The only time that I use it is when I sometimes activate it accidentally when using that button to open a link in the background. In these cases, the foreground page scrolls very rapidly until I stop it.

Note: I'm not talking about using the mouse wheel to manually scroll.

As this article explains, Firefox has a way to disable it, but Chrome does not.
https://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/14/how-to-disable-middle-mouse-button-scrolling-in-chrome

Except with use of an extension, like one of these.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-smooth-scrolling/oikddacoldignalphkgeppnpalkmkgbo

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-smooth-scroll-2/hmnphcnjmmddnocmhmdmlgbdkabcccho

Note that they use the word "smooth" scrolling, but it has nothing to do with smooth scrolling, which is an unrelated Chrome flag (and also a Vivaldi option), so please ignore the name. I'm talking about auto scrolling.

Each extension lists the code involved right at the top of the page in the screenshot. It's only a handful of lines, nothing complicated.

One final note: I think Chrome/Chromium etc on Linux doesn't have autoscrolling in the first place, so I'm talking about Vivaldi on Windows (and maybe Mac, I don't know).

Example code one of the extensions uses:

document.addEventListener("mousedown", function(mouseEvent) {
        if (mouseEvent.button != 1) {
               return;
        }
        mouseEvent.preventDefault();
        mouseEvent.stopPropagation();
});

Pesala

@rseiler I don't know of any way to disable it, but it should be in Settings, so I have moved the thread.

I find it useful for viewing very large images in a tab; otherwise, I rarely use it.

shifte

@rseiler
Using AutoHotKey is the easiest way.

#IfWinActive ahk_exe vivaldi.exe
~MButton::^LButton

LonM

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