Feature Request: Refrain from providing middle mouse button scroll lock

[WhiteKnight]

This is my use case:

I’m regularly browsing lists of hyperlinks to follow list items’ content in new browser tabs.

So, what I’m often doing is to middle click a hyperlink and immediately push the mouse away so I can continue my work using the keyboard without the mouse pointer being permanently in the way.

I’m a quick worker, so this is what happens when I’m either missing to hit a hyperlink or when a web designer decided it would be cute to show a Hand pointer on an element that’s not being a hyperlink:

1. I middle-click an element
2. auto-scroll ist getting enabled
3. I immediately release the middle mouse button
4. this enables scroll-lock mode for auto-scroll
5. I push the mouse away
6. the list item disappears into oblivion

See this screencast:

Desired situation

I want to continue to use auto-scroll for intentionally scrolling through a web page.

But I do not want scroll-lock to happen in any way, no matter how short I’m pressing the middle mouse button on a non-hyperlink element.

Please, add an additional option for permanently disabling scroll-lock when auto-scroll jumps in, so when the middle mouse button is released, scrolling always stops immediately.

[Jon]

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[Botond]

Do you mean that, when you use auto-scroll to intentionally scroll through a web page, you keep the middle mouse button pressed for the duration of the gesture?

[WhiteKnight]

Yes, exactly.