[Feature Request] Disable Middle-Click Tab-Close when scrolling

[aphirst]

If I happen to have clicked my middle mouse button to scroll upwards on a webpage, it's frustrating that, given that I'll tend to put the mouse right to the top of the screen in order to scroll quickly, another middle-click to exit the auto-scroll mode also ends up closing the tab that the mouse cursor was inevitably over.

To the best of my awareness, this does not occur in e.g. Firefox's auto-scroll mode.

It would be cool if inhibition of this behaviour were considered, if not necessarily as standard behaviour, but at least as an option, for implementation in a future release.

[Pauan]

That's a good idea, but it's not currently possible.

Unlike Firefox extensions, Chrome extensions are very limited in what they can do.

AutoScroll can modify webpages, but it cannot modify Chrome itself, so there's no way for AutoScroll to prevent Chrome from closing the tab.

I'll leave this issue open, in case Chrome ever adds in an API that allows for this.

[aphirst]

Thanks for the feedback. Shame to hear that this currently isn't possible. Might it be worth mentioning to the Chrom(ium) developers at some point, perhaps simply to indicate (reinforce?) interest in such functionality?

[Pauan]

It wouldn't hurt to ask, but I think the chances of them adding in that functionality is very low.