Brave-browser: Autoscroll functionality for Linux / Mac

[bsclifton]

Carried over from https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/3007

If you have the necessary time, can you add autoscroll functionality for Brave on Linux? Normally, the scroll wheel is used on Linux to paste text that has previously been selected, as an alternative to Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V.
Firefox has this already built it ("Use autoscrolling" in preferences). On Chrome, this is not available.

I found this extension that works on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoscroll/occjjkgifpmdgodlplnacmkejpdionan

Also, their GitHub page with the source code: https://github.com/Pauan/AutoScroll

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Brave Version: 0.11.3

@JaneSmith mentions that the extension linked to has a bad implementation. The functionality desired is what is present in Firefox

[tycho01]

I tried the above AutoScroll extension, where in the reviews a comment led me to this thread. With the libnput commands there I got this to work in Brave as well. For a few web applications like GDocs I needed a browser restart.

Cases where this does not work yet for me:

• PDFs
• local files
• in e.g. github source views longer than the page window (example page), autoscroll only works if I middle-click (whether single or held) outside of the code pane

[danger89]

Please..

[clay53]

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[srirambv]

+1 from https://community.brave.com/t/how-do-i-enable-autoscroll-in-brave-for-linux-redux/162965