• Friday May 16th 2008
• Do you want fries with that project?

Skip to Content

grabanddrag

resources:	Home Screenshots Installation Source Code

The Grab And Drag extension provides a number of alternative ways to scroll pages in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Flock. It provides Adobe Acrobat-style grab and drag page scrolling and scrollbar-style scrolling initiated by dragging anywhere on the screen. Grab and Drag also recognizes mouse "Flick" gestures for scrolling up, down, left, or right a screenful at a time, and supports page "Momentum", allowing a page to continue scrolling when dragged at a constant velocity and released.

The extension provides three ways to easily toggle functionality on and off:

• A toggle icon can be added to the toolbars via View > Toolbars > Customize...
• Alt-Shift-D toggles functionality on and off
• The new 'TextToggle' feature allows grabbing to be temporarily disabled simply by double-clicking text in the webpage. Clicking non-text reenables dragging.

Grab and Drag 2.5

Grab and Drag in action on a touchscreen device:

Note: If you run Grab and Drag in middle button mode it will disable autoscrolling automatically for compatibility reasons. You can reinstate it later in the Firefox Options menu under the "Advanced" tab by checking the box "Use Autoscrolling".

Is Grab and Drag sluggish on your Tablet PC/UMPC when you scroll with the pen? Try running Tabtip-Tamer to improve pen responsiveness throughout Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

I can be reached at grabanddrag at hotmathematician.com for feedback, feature requests, and bug reports.

Recent Release History:

Version 2.5.0.3
• Bugfixes
• Localizations: en-US, fr-FR, de-DE, ko-KR, zh-CN, es-ES
  
  Version 2.5
• Momentum friction feature
• Option for Flicks to scroll across entire webpage
• Option of invisible mouse cursor
• Drag multiplier can now be smaller than 1.0
  
  Version 2.1
• Bugfixes
• Localizations: en-US, it-IT, es-ES, zh-CN, zh-TW, ru-RU, de-DE, nl-NL, ko-KR
  
  Version 2.0.10
• Bugfixes & performance tweaks
  
  Version 2.0.4
• Bugfixes, fixed incompatibility with Download Statusbar
  
  Version 2.0.1
• Support for other mouse buttons
• Quick Toggle replaced with "TextToggle"
• New dragging behavior options
• Startup Wizard & new preferences layout
• Several bugfixes and functionality tweaks
• Works in CoolIris previews
  
  Version 1.6.0
• Full Firefox 2.0 support including updated theme icons
• Improvements to Momentum algorithm- should be fewer misfires
• Compatibility fix for some previously conflicting extensions
  
  Version 1.5.3
• Flock 0.7 support
• Bugfix: Drag multiplier and Scrollbar mode stopped working
• Bugfix: incompatibility with Tab Mix Plus
• Bugfix: Small toolbar icons not updating properly
• Tweak to improve scrolling smoothness
  
  Version 1.5.0
• Added "Momentum" scrolling
• Smooth scroll stopping
  
  Version 1.2.4
• Fixed incompatibility with "Image Toolbar" extension
• "Flick" mouse gesture page scrolling
• Drag Increment parameter
• Drag Multiplier parameter
• Scrollbar Drag Mode
• Menu Toolbar