Restore Scrollbar Position for Mac

Restores the last scrollbar position when dragging the scrollbar when your mouse leaves the scrollbar's buffer zone. This brings a long standing feature from Windows to Mac.
What is Restore Scrollbar Position for Mac?
Restore Scrollbar Position for Mac is a Firefox add-on that brings the convenient Windows scrollbar behavior to Mac. Drag the scrollbar, move the mouse away, and easily jump back to your scroll position.

Add-on stats

By: em_te
Users: 3
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2022-03-07)
Creation date: 2022-03-06
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 13.69K

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Add-on summary

How many times have you scrolled the webpage a certain distance and suddenly want to "peek" at sometime at the top or bottom of the webpage without losing your current scroll position?

If I scroll back to the top (or bottom) of the page to review part of the webpage, there is no guaranteed way to return to where I was.

On Windows systems, this is easy because when dragging the scrollbar using the mouse, if you keep the mouse button held down, and move the pointer sideways for about 100 pixels, the scrollbar goes back to its location before being dragged, and the webpage with it.

Mac systems have not implemented this super useful behavior, but with this extension you can now have a similar feature too.

To quickly scroll to another part of the webpage and easily jump back to the current position, simply drag the scrollbar to the desired part of the webpage, and without releasing the mouse button, drag the pointer away from the scrollbar at least 100 pixels away and THEN release the mouse button.

Limitation: For performance reasons, only the top level scrollbar is supported. For scrollbars inside subsections of the webpage, it isn't supported.

For a discussion on this behavior, please see this thread: https://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/scrollbar-redux.html

User reviews

Thank you. Working well on Linux (GNOME), too.
by Peter Kehl, 2023-10-03
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Restore Scrollbar Position for Mac requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Restore Scrollbar Position for Mac has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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