# ScrollAnywhere

> Scroll page without touching scroll-bar! Press Middle (Right / Left) mouse button anywhere on the page to scroll just like with scrollbar. Features also: - "grab and drag" scrolling - customizable scrollbars! - the Momentum auto-scroll

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/scroll\_anywhere](https://chrome-stats.com/d/scroll_anywhere)

## Overview

- **ID:** `scroll_anywhere`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Juraj Mäsiar
- **Category:** search-tools,appearance
- **Daily users:** 11,707
- **Weekly downloads:** 279
- **Rating:** 4.61 / 5 (490 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.2
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-20
- **First published:** 2016-11-01
- **Size:** 422 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhere/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/fastaddons/ScrollAnywhere/issues](https://github.com/fastaddons/ScrollAnywhere/issues)

## Description

**ScrollAnywhere** is a powerful Chrome extension that transforms how you navigate webpages. Instead of interacting directly with the scrollbar, simply press and hold the middle, right, or left mouse button anywhere on the page to scroll up, down, or sideways — mimicking the scrollbar functionality with ease. 

The extension also supports "grab and drag" scrolling similar to touchscreen interactions, momentum auto-scrolling that lets you "throw" the page for faster navigation, and fully customizable scrollbars where you can change colors, thickness, or even hide them. Additional features include scrolling speed multipliers, custom scrolling cursors, options to auto-disable the extension on specified domains, and toggle support on keypress. ScrollAnywhere enhances your browsing experience with intuitive, flexible scrolling controls available across the web and even your Thunderbird email client.

Try it out and enjoy smoother, more natural scrolling without reaching for the scrollbar!

## Rankings

- #716 — Overall
- #14 — Search Tools
- #43 — Appearance
- #1 — scroll
- #2 — momentum
- #3 — poll

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users overwhelmingly praise ScrollAnywhere for making scrolling smoother, being high‑quality and repeatedly relied upon, and restoring useful scrolling behavior. The main downside reported by multiple reviewers is occasional reliability issues — it can stop working or need re‑enabling — and a minority of users report it appears non‑functional or confusing to use.

### Pros

- Smoother, improved scrolling — users repeatedly say it makes browsing and scrolling feel much better (including in VMs or when mouse-wheel is poor).
- High quality and reliable — several reviews note they reinstall and reuse it on new machines and call it essential/indispensable.
- Restores a useful scrolling behavior and is versatile — multiple users praise that it “works beautifully,” helps in places like slides, and provides a pleasant, old‑school UI.

### Cons

- Occasional reliability problems — multiple reports that the add‑on can stop working or requires re‑enabling (toolbar toggle) to function.
- Some users experience non‑functional behavior or confusion — there are complaints that it appears not to work for some users or that usage isn’t immediately clear.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/scroll_anywhere)