Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages

Latest Version

Version
1.9.0
Update
April 21, 2021
Size
92.94KiB
Developer
Category
Users
4,000+
Rating
3.72917 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Tabs
Http://*/*
Https://*/*
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Hand Tool Extension

User Guide:
- Refresh tab after installing to activate the extension.
- Default For Windows: Press and drag Right Mouse to pan.
- Default For Ubuntu: Press and drag Middle Mouse to pan.
- Default For Mac: Press and Hold Ctrl and move pointer to pan.
- For Stylus users, it's recommended to setup one of the buttons on your stylus to be Ctrl Key and use that button to activate panning.
- See Options page for more details. (After installation, Right Click on this extension's icon, then click Options).
- To quickly turn extension On/Off, pin the extension icon, then clicking on the icon will switch it on/off.
- This extension works best with mouses, stylus drawing tablets, laptop touchpad (only in case it doesn't provide convenient panning by gesture).

Change Log:
1.9.0 - 21/04/2021
- Fix initialization bug on Mac.
- Remove cursor styling.
- Update option text.

1.5.0 - 18/04/2021
- Update option UI.
- Update default behaviour for different operating systems.
- Remove unnecessary permission request and republished.

1.4.0 - 18/10/2017
- Fix issue with Chrome 61+.
- Fix extension's auto reload mechanism when extension update.
*Since emitting custom Wheel Event no longer has any effect on scrolling, the extension now falls back to update element.scrollTop & scrollLeft directly, which might cause layout issues with certain websites while scrolling.
*As you might have noticed, this extension also no longer works with chrome's pdf reader. After an update some time ago, Chrome's pdf readers has started to run within a hidden internal extension window and there seems to be no way for other extension to manipulate scroll position of that window.

Features
- Natural Sliding and Frictions.
- Option page to change and preview settings.
- Settings syncs across tabs.
- Turn On and Off easily by clicking on Extension Icon.

Hand Tool for Google Chrome makes scrolling any webpage similar to:
- Pdf Readers
- Photoshop Hand Tool
- Google Map Panning Hand
- Scrolling a smart phone...
- Grab-and-Drag extension on Firefox
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Hand Tool", "description": "Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages", "version": "1.9.0", "permissions": [ "tabs", "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "icons": { "128": "hand-pointer.png" }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": "hand-pointer.png", "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "commands": { "_execute_browser_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+1", "mac": "MacCtrl+Shift+F" } } }, "background": { "scripts": [ "background.js" ] }, "options_ui": { "page": "option.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "content_scripts": [ { "js": [ "content.js" ], "matches": [ "" ], "all_frames": true } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ "jquery.js", "openhand.cur", "closedhand.cur" ]}
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User reviews

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Jay S. Marlow (ID: 000000ddb27dc637) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/30/2023 It works fine. My main issues are that it does not work on the PDF viewer on the Edge browser, which is the primary reason I wanted it. The other major flaw is that it cannot work with just the left mouse button. You should be able to click it on when you need it, use it to scroll with the left mouse button, then if you need to highlight text you click it off and use the left mouse button to highlight text. That is the way it has worked on every other app or program I have seen that has a hand or grabber tool. Most of the time you do not need the hand tool on, only when you are viewing a zoomed document.

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mustafa husen (ID: 00000050f42d1f61) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/29/2023 this is what i was looking for. thank you

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ghqmehjr (ID: 0000005f711dc7d6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/26/2022 流暢度能再加強一點就更完美了

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Pham Nhung (ID: 000000bd24a9b042) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/08/2022 Very useful!

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Mihály Nagy (ID: 000000e50fe81919) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/16/2022 THIS IS AWESOME! It is one-of-a-kind! Thank you!