Hand Tool

Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages

What is Hand Tool?

Hand Tool is a Chrome extension developed by Marani, and its main feature is "Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages".

Extension Screenshots

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Download Hand Tool Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

                        User Guide:
- Refresh tab after installing to activate the extension.
- Default For Windows: Press and drag Right Mouse to pan.
- Default For Ubuntu: Press and drag Middle Mouse to pan.
- Default For Mac: Press and Hold Ctrl and move pointer to pan.
- For Stylus users, it's recommended to setup one of the buttons on your stylus to be Ctrl Key and use that button to activate panning.
- See Options page for more details. (After installation, Right Click on this extension's icon, then click Options).
- To quickly turn extension On/Off, pin the extension icon, then clicking on the icon will switch it on/off.
- This extension works best with mouses, stylus drawing tablets, laptop touchpad (only in case it doesn't provide convenient panning by gesture).

Change Log:
1.9.0 - 21/04/2021
- Fix initialization bug on Mac.
- Remove cursor styling.
- Update option text.

1.5.0 - 18/04/2021
- Update option UI.
- Update default behaviour for different operating systems.
- Remove unnecessary permission request and republished.

1.4.0 - 18/10/2017
- Fix issue with Chrome 61+.
- Fix extension's auto reload mechanism when extension update.
*Since emitting custom Wheel Event no longer has any effect on scrolling, the extension now falls back to update element.scrollTop & scrollLeft directly, which might cause layout issues with certain websites while scrolling.
*As you might have noticed, this extension also no longer works with chrome's pdf reader. After an update some time ago, Chrome's pdf readers has started to run within a hidden internal extension window and there seems to be no way for other extension to manipulate scroll position of that window.

Features
- Natural Sliding and Frictions.
- Option page to change and preview settings.
- Settings syncs across tabs.
- Turn On and Off easily by clicking on Extension Icon.

Hand Tool for Google Chrome makes scrolling any webpage similar to:
- Pdf Readers
- Photoshop Hand Tool
- Google Map Panning Hand
- Scrolling a smart phone...
- Grab-and-Drag extension on Firefox                    

Extension Basic Information

Name Hand Tool Hand Tool
ID paflchebahgbgeambpbhoieeanaddehf
Official URL https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hand-tool/paflchebahgbgeambpbhoieeanaddehf
Description Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages
File Size 92.94 KB
Installation Count 5,215
Current Version 1.9.0
Last Updated 2021-04-22
Publish Date 2021-04-20
Rating 3.74/5 Total 92 Ratings
Developer Marani
Email [email protected]
Payment Type free
Supported Languages en
manifest.json
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    "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx",
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "name": "Hand Tool",
    "description": "Use your Mouse or Stylus to grab and pan web pages",
    "version": "1.9.0",
    "permissions": [
        "tabs",
        "http:\/\/*\/*",
        "https:\/\/*\/*"
    ],
    "icons": {
        "128": "hand-pointer.png"
    },
    "browser_action": {
        "default_icon": "hand-pointer.png",
        "default_popup": "popup.html"
    },
    "commands": {
        "_execute_browser_action": {
            "suggested_key": {
                "default": "Alt+1",
                "mac": "MacCtrl+Shift+F"
            }
        }
    },
    "background": {
        "scripts": [
            "background.js"
        ]
    },
    "options_ui": {
        "page": "option.html",
        "open_in_tab": true
    },
    "content_scripts": [
        {
            "js": [
                "content.js"
            ],
            "matches": [
                ""
            ],
            "all_frames": true
        }
    ],
    "web_accessible_resources": [
        "jquery.js",
        "openhand.cur",
        "closedhand.cur"
    ]
}