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Daily Trick 21. Grab and Scroll

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In many occasions, scrolling will be needed. If we are using a trackpad, usually we will use double finger to scroll vertically or horizontally.

However, some users may not feel accustomed to the double finger scrolling, they would choose to drag the scroll bar. For these users, we can suggest another new way of scrolling grab-scrolling.

How to perform the scrolling? Follow these steps and you will know:

  1. Open an application has a scroll bar
  2. Put your pointer on top of that application
  3. Press and hold down modifier keys Cmd-Opt
  4. You will see the pointer transformed into an open hand
  5. When you perform a click-and-hold, the hand will look like grabbing the pane
  6. Move around the cursor (while holding the click) to perform the scrolling

This works just like grabbing around the map in Google Map.

Now, you can experience a brand new way of scrolling, i.e. grab-scrolling. And for me, this trick is extremely useful when you want to scroll diagonally.

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6 Comments

Marcus

I think it's wonderful as well, but I'm not quite sure how to make it.
I just simply press Cmd and Opt in Safari yet nothing happen to my pointer.
Anyone can help and give me a solution?

Ian

Me too... I can't get it (in safari). Is this completely correct?

Behe

I can only find that this is a supported option in the Camino browser..

gene

It works in Firefox on this page, but not in Google Reader. The hand pointer is there, but it just doesn't scroll. In any other app I've tried it doesn't work at all (mail, safari, word, excel etc.). Looks like i'ts limited to Firefox only

Sajjad K

Yay!

Another crappy 'hint'.

And this one doesn't even work.

P.S. In preview it changes the mouse into a selection tool, though!

Falcon eyez

It don't work with Safari
I've try it on firefox , It works perfectly
Thanks

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