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Google Chrome mouse wheel takes keyboard focus

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Mar 15, 20261091 views
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I recently switched the default browser on all my machines from Firefox to Google Chrome. In general I’m loving Chrome but there is one behaviour that is driving me nuts. Scrolling with the mouse wheel takes keyboard focus away from the document. Here’s what happens. I’ve just opened a page or swit…

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Fix for: Google Chrome mouse wheel takes keyboard focus

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I have found a solution. There is apparently a bug in Chrome that cause some incompatibility with mouse wheel extenders such as KatMouse, which I happen to use. Rob Boek has documented a workaround, where changing some settings in KatMouse solves th…

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