Scroll Buddy

Name: Scroll Buddy
Rating: 4.947368421052632 (19 reviews)
Author: otoinsa

This extension allows you to automate page scrolling

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Scroll Buddy is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your reading or browsing experience by automating page scrolling. Unlike typical auto-scroll plugins, it offers precise control over how many pixels are scrolled with each line and lets you set the scrolling speed in milliseconds, ensuring a smooth and customizable scroll motion.

With a simple and elegant interface, Scroll Buddy lets you start or stop scrolling conveniently via the right-click context menu or by pressing the enter key on the browser toolbar popup regardless of focus. Whether you're reading online books or tired of manual scrolling, Scroll Buddy provides an easy solution to automate and customize scrolling just the way you want.

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By:

otoinsa

Users:

849 5

Rating:

4.95

(19)

Version:

1.1 Last updated: 2023-12-29

Creation date:

2017-10-30

Risk:

Permissions:

notifications
storage
contextMenus
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size:

1.94M

Email:

ot*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 32,003 ▲ 575

Other rankings

#631 in Accessibility ▼ 2 #42 in scroll keyword 17

User reviews

Scroll Buddy is highly praised for its reliable, hands-free scrolling and detailed speed adjustment. Users appreciate that it scrolls to the bottom every time without getting stuck, outperforming many other extensions they've tried. Some users mentioned minor bugs and suggested improvements like adding hotkeys to toggle the feature and more controls to stop scrolling. Overall, it is considered one of the best scrollers with a nice design and functionality.

Pros

Provides detailed speed adjustment for scrolling with pixel-to-millisecond ratio.
Reliable scrolling that reaches the bottom of pages without getting stuck.
Easy and hands-free scrolling experience.
Good design and user interface.
Highly praised compared to many other scroller extensions.

Cons

A desire for a hotkey to enable/disable scrolling.
Occasional minor bugs causing less smooth operation.
Request for more buttons to stop scrolling.

Recent reviews

best one

igris, 2025-01-11

The best scroller I have tried so far. I will key using it. Good job! 😉

Stephen Roille, 2021-02-01

Наконец-то, детальная настройка скорости прокрутки с отношением пикселей к милисекундам!

Crypto Lavka, 2021-01-13

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Scroll Buddy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Scroll Buddy has earned a fairly good reputation and likely 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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