Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller Extension

Scrolling is an activity that web browser users do on a regular basis. That’s why scrolling is essential for many users who work regularly with Internet browsers. Most users feel that the standard mouse scrolling smoothness of the web browser is fine for their purposes. There are however users who think the opposite. These users install browser add-ons or extensions that can fine tune the mouse scrolling smoothness so that it is more comfortable to work with the web browser.

The Firefox web browser has quite a few add-ons that offer a configuration of the scrolling smoothness in the web browser. Smoothwheel is one of the add-ons but there are also additional hacks to fix the choppy scrolling in the web browser.

The Google Chrome extension Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller provides Google Chrome users with the ability to fine tune the web browser’s scrolling as well.

The configuration provides access to four mouse and keyboard scrolling parameters that can be changed to suit the individual needs of the Chrome user. The four available parameters are step size which defines the pixels that are scrolled with each tick of the wheel, the smoothness factor at the beginning and end as well as the acceleration sensitivity which defines the step size when the mouse wheel is flicked quickly.

The values can be changed by editing them in the provided forms on the configuration page. The new values become active once the focus is removed from the form they have been entered in. It is usually a good idea to open a website that consists of a few pages to be able to test the new values effectively.

Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller can be downloaded from the official Google Chrome extension repository. It is compatible with Google Chrome 4 browsers (via Download Squad)

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday January 7, 2010 -
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