Scroll Preview

Name: Scroll Preview
Rating: 3.925925925925926 (27 reviews)
Author: Mike Chen

Scroll Preview integrates a whole-page preview with scrollbar that inspired by Sublime Text's mini map.

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Scroll Preview is a Chrome extension that enhances your browsing experience by integrating a whole-page preview directly into a new, easy-to-use scrollbar inspired by Sublime Text's minimap. Activate it with Alt + A to access a rough preview or Alt + Shift + A for a refined snapshot. This additional scrollbar works seamlessly alongside your native scrollbar, allowing you to drag or click to quickly jump to different parts of any web page.

Key features include automatic updating of the snapshot when resizing the window, a magnifier tool on the preview to aid navigation, options for always-on or conditional automatic modes, and the ability to toggle the preview with keyboard shortcuts. It also supports blacklist and whitelist functionalities for customized usage. The extension was developed by Mike Chen and incorporates the "html2canvas" library to render webpage snapshots efficiently. Perfect for users who want better visual context of long webpages and faster navigation.

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By:: Mike Chen
Users:: 626 -34
Rating:: 3.93
(27)
Version:: 6.2 (Last updated: 2024-11-12)
Creation date:: 2019-08-07
Risk:: Low risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Permissions:: activeTab
storage
Size:: 70.36K
Email:: ch*****@gmail.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 36,749 ▼ 602

Other rankings

#1545 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 12 #24 in preview keyword 18 ▼ 9 #31 in scroll keyword 17 ▼ 8

User reviews

Pros

Provides a useful scroll preview that enhances page reading and navigation.
Offers a novel and interesting idea reminiscent of code preview features in IDEs.
Works well on high-resolution screens and for users using precise mouse or touchpad movements.
Users appreciate the extension's implementation and find it handy in certain browsing scenarios.
Supports multiple languages and has appreciative feedback from diverse user base.

Cons

Requires manual activation with a hotkey (Alt+A) which can be inconvenient and needs to be pressed after each page load or request.
The preview overlay is obtrusive and does not automatically hide or vanish when not scrolling, covering content and making it distracting.
Lacks customization options such as changing the shortcut key, adjusting transparency, or making the preview less intrusive.
The preview sometimes overlaps or overrides other content on the page, and the scrollbar preview does not scale properly on smaller pages.
Content inside the preview has rendering issues such as poor anti-aliasing and an unattractive shadow effect.

Recent reviews

Perfect! Also, could you make the hover-preview be like Jetbrains' Code Lens? Or even, a full-page preview on hovering over the minimap, essentially, a regular jump-scroll, with the nuance that unhovering takes you back to where to initially were.

The A Man, 2023-05-02

Спасибо! Искал как раз такое, чтобы само отображалось при необходимости. Попробовал разные другие приложения, они то не работали, то были не такими удобными. Очень рад, что нашел это, спасибо разработчику!

Roman Mavliutov, 2021-12-08

Excelente extensão! Permite um visual melhor para leitura de páginas!

Rogerio M. Souza, 2021-06-19

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Scroll Preview requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

Scroll Preview has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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