I huge annoyance for me the past few days has been that pressing Ctrl-F in Chrome wouldn’t bring up the find box until I clicked inside the content area of the browser window.
The problem it turns out has to do with KatMouse. I love KatMouse! It is a utility that allows you to use your scroll wheel to scroll inactive windows. The problem was that scrolling the Chrome window with KatMouse would cause it to go inactive.
The Fix:
- Open KatMouse Settings.
- Select the Classes Tab.
- Drag the target on to the Chrome window.
- Double-click the “Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND” class and clear the checkbox labeled “Window has wheel scrolling support?” and click OK.
- Click OK to close the KatMouse Properties window.
You should now be able to scroll in Chrome without the window losing focus.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
All of this time I assumed it was a problem with Chrome. You save me from posting something stupid in the support forums. Thanks!
Thank you! I too assumed it was a Chrome problem. Microsoft could end headaches like this if they would just make scrolling based on the cursor by default, instead of window focus =/ Until then, KatMouse will continue to be the first thing I install on any windows computer.
пока я жив, я буду помнить ваш ресурс :) заношу в букмарки….
A bagillion thanks to you, sir!
Thank you so much!!! This had been bothering me for weeks.
ffs I never thought I’d find an answer – THANKS SO MUCH! =)
Well done, sir.