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My girlfriend does NOT use her mouse wheel to scroll web pages. It's melting my brain.
Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.
Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.
Also, don't get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.
The one I absolutely loathe (maybe because I run into it more often) is them stealing when I press Ctrl+f to focus their page's search textbox.
I've got a friend who scrolls webpages by middle-clicking and moving the cursor down.
Drives me insane every time I see her do it.
Is she a Firefox user too, then? I feel handicapped in Chromium browsers when middle-clicking does fuck all. If it's more than three wheel spins away, I too engage "auto-scroll", as it's called. Of course you can also scroll fast if your mouse wheel unlocks and spins freely but with the middle click auto-scroll, you can also go slow and indefinitely, which can be handy for longer reads or for presentation / screen share purposes.
Pretty sure it's a Windows feature, because I've done it by accident in Chromium browsers, but only on Windows.
But yeah she's a Firefox user.
Page Up/Page Down gang
Me neither, I grab the scrollbar and speed up/slow down as i'm scrolling through the page. Scroll wheel is 1 speed.
I also disable smooth scrolling. When I do use the wheel, I hate it when I can see text move to a position and I have to wait for the animation to finish. Nah, I want it to move there instantly, not slowly but smoothly.