Soroush Javidi

I found a nice feature in the Mac version of Firefox 3 the other day, which I hadn't seen mentioned before. What feature am I talking about? Scroll-dragging. You know, similar to most PDF readers like Adobe Acrobat. You click a part of the page and a hand icon grabs the page and you can move up and down through the page.

I noticed that by holding down command+option, the cursor changes to a hand icon and you can then click on a part of the page and scroll-drag. It's not the most brilliant feature, but there are times when I want to control my scrolling, or to scroll down at very small increments, and this is useful.

I have to add, I haven't installed any extensions like the Grab and Drag Firefox extension (found via Lifekacker), and have only noticed this on the Mac version of Firefox. I've tested it by using Ctrl+Alt on Windows and Linux versions, and didn't get the same result (I have the same extensions on those machines as well),

If you're using Safari, Doug Bowman mentioned (long ago), that the shareware plugin Saft enables the same feature (and more!) for Safari.

Happy scoll-dragging!