Bug#640959: chromium: please implement automatic scroll with middle mouse button

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: chromium
Version: 13.0.782.107~r94237-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

Galeon (my current main browser) has a very useful feature that
I miss in Chromium.

In Galeon preferences, "Mouse" section, I can set "automatic scroll"
as middle button action. This means that, when I click on a web page
with the middle mouse button, I get an four-arrowed cross that I can
move away from a circle in order to scroll the page in any 2D direction
and with the desired speed. The direction is the one from the center
of the circle to the center of the cross; the speed increases with
distance of the cross from the circle.
Once the cross is placed somewhere off the center of the circle, the
scrolling goes on automatically in a "hands-free" way.
The scrolling changes direction and/or speed, as I move the cross
again; it stops when I click on the page again with the middle mouse
button.

This is very practical: it can be used to scroll pages very quickly
and in any direction, or to slowly scroll down a page while reading,
and so forth.

It would be very nice to have this feature implemented in Chromium.

Please forward this request upstream.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector 13.0.782.107~r94237-1 page inspector for the chromium br
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ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.13-18               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-6.1            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2           1.5.0-5               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.14-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.94-4                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.14b-stable-1      asynchronous event notification li
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac8           1.2.1-5               Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-3               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.6-2               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.6.1-4             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.4-1              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-9               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-3              GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.6-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.24.4-3              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-2                 Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runt
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.9-1               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.11-3             Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.4-3              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.46-3              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.1-4               GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.7.p1-1            VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libwebp0           0.1.2-1               Lossy compression of digital photo
ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.4-1             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.3.0-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-4          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-2             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-8              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-2             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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