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I am going to disagree strongly there. The alternative way to scroll is, in most cases, the mouse scroll wheel. And that gets tedious (and strenuous for some
by deepspace 3y ago
I am going to disagree strongly there. The alternative way to scroll is, in most cases, the mouse scroll wheel. And that gets tedious (and strenuous for some people) really fast when the document gets large. I absolutely need the ability to use the scroll bar to change my position in a document.
- pohuing 3y agoOne Alternative would be autoscroll. Ie clicking with the middle mouse button and then moving the mouse up or down. The distance and direction between the click position and the cursor controls the scroll speed. But it feels like this is primarily a windows thing for some reason. Firefox supports it cross platform but that's about it
- pseudalopex 3y agoMany people have trouble controlling the speed. And most Apple mice didn't have a middle button.
- joseda-hg 3y agoI can't remember the last time I had to resort to manually scrolling by clicking the scrollbar In order of use, I scroll one click, middle-click and drag (Best for constant movement), use the dedicated keys, use arrows, or use vimium bindings (Which I try to avoid, because I'd prefer to not get used to non-CUA keybindings on programs I might have to use in other computers)
- pseudalopex 3y agoDragging the scroll indicator is much faster than some of these. And more reliable. And easier to control than middle click and drag.
- atom058 3y agoThere are dedicated keys for this on most keyboards: PgUp, PgDown, Spacebar (context dependent)
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