Smooth Key Scroll Smooth Key Scroll

Accessibility
Version: 2.6.6
Last Update: 2023-01-16

Overview

Smooth Key Scroll is a Chrome extension developed by Smooth Key Scroll. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Smooth Key Scroll is 2.6.6, updated on 2023-01-16.
20,000+ users have installed this extension. 158 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Smooth scroll with the keyboard

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
- Option to disable blue arrow from google search

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

Changes
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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

Rating

158 ratings

Total Installs

20,000+

Information

Last Update

2023-01-16

Current Version

2.6.6

Size

369KiB

Author

Smooth Key Scroll

Website

None

Category

Accessibility

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avatar daered
2022-03-13

Doesn't work on PDFs? Seriously?

avatar Melanie Baker
2022-01-18

Thank you so much for creating this extension!!! It is so smooth now when I scroll with my arrow keys, more smooth than I thought possible, I just wish it worked on everything on my laptop not just when scrolling on Chrome.

avatar M. AL-Hejji
2021-11-13

is it possible to add an option for auto scrolling?

avatar Trường Lê
2021-10-06

only works on web that have 1 scrollable area

avatar Xuong Tran Trieu
2021-07-02

It's super of good use to me. Excellent!

Note:
There is time when we need to use mouse click on the page in order to make this extension function