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.
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.
Thank you! This has been driving me nuts for weeks.
Sorry to comment on an old post, but you, sir, are my hero.
OH MY GOSH THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME CRAZY TO NO END!!! THANKS!!
Thank you for this! Been bugging me for ages, and had sneaking suspicion it was KatMouse related. Nice one, cheers!!
Thank you!
brilliant, thank you!
Thanks for posting this howto! Works perfectly!
As a recent convert to Chrome from Firefox this was driving me mad. In my case it was the inability to create a new tab with Ctrl-T rather than an issue with the Find box, but the root cause was the same. It was even worse because it was intermittent, but I hadn’t noticed until tonight that the intermittent nature coincided with those times I ran KatMouse.
Your page is the first DuckDuckGo hit for the search “chrome katmouse focus” and the posted solution worked first time. Kudos. It may be three years old but as long as this incompatibility exists please promise to never take this page down!
You rule! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love KatMouse. I love Chrome. I hated that Chrome would lose keyboard input focus (ctrl+F, ctrl+W, etc) when I scrolled. I never even stopped to think it might be KatMouse before!
THANK YOU!
Thank you very much! That worked like a charm!
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