Autoscroll is a feature activated by the middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) that enables fast navigation of view width. For historic reasons, most Linux applications treat a middle-click as a paste command. However, it might be desirable to imitate a Windows behavior, by initiating automatic scrolling when clicked on a blank area of a web page.
Chromium
- chromium-extension-autoscrollAUR: allows middle-click to initiate automatic scrolling.
- When you program both small buttons to emit middle-click, either button can initiate automatic scrolling. That is a click function.
- When you program one of the small buttons to act as scroll modifier (mouse setup), you can manually scroll web pages without fixing the browser. That is a press‑and‑hold function. (I recommend installing AutoScroll even though it is not absolutely necessary for scrolling.)
- After you assign the scroll modifier to one of the small buttons, the small buttons act a bit differently from one another. The difference is seen when you compare their "press‑and‑hold" behaviors.
Firefox
- enabled by setting
general.autoScroll
to true inabout:config
.