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ScrollMaps

by mauriceprograms

v5.1.0 Updated Dec 13, 2025 502KiB
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Description

Allow you to use two finger scroll on your Mac trackpad in Google Maps. Install ScrollMaps and you can use two-finger scroll in various online maps. It's designed for Mac trackpads but because of the simple mechanism, it should work on all trackpads, or even a Magic Mouse. To zoom in the maps, simply use the pinch gesture. Inertial Scrolling works on the Mac, as well as on other operating systems that supports it natively. There are additional options in the options page, together with a small embedded map to try out different configurations. Supported maps providers: - Google Maps - MapBox - Esri ArcGIS - Apple MapKit JS - OpenStreetMap - and a few others Happy mapping! --- Permissions: When ScrollMaps is installed, it asks for permission to access different Google Maps domains so it can activate automatically. Those permissions can be turned off in Chrome's extension settings page, in which case ScrollMaps will only activate if you click on the extension icon on the top right. For other mapping sites, like MapBox, ArcGIS, Apple MapKit JS, and sites using Google Maps API or iframe, ScrollMaps does not activate by default, and requires clicking on ScrollMaps' extension icon. If you click on the browser icon again after activating, a dialog will pop up allowing you to enable ScrollMaps automatically on that domain or on all sites. --- If there is a bug or anything you want to fix in this extension / in Google Maps, please create an issue at https://github.com/mauricelam/ScrollMaps To activate ScrollMaps on a site outside of the google.com domain, click on the ScrollMaps extension icon to the right of the URL bar. Auto-activate ScrollMaps on all sites you visit, you can click on the icon again and select "Auto-activate on all sites". --- What's new in 5.0.0: - New map types supported, including MapBox, Esri ArcGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc. What's new in 4.0.0: - All permissions are now optional; permission revocations are now fully supported. In the Manage Extensions page in your browser you can now remove ScrollMaps permission to access google.com/maps and maps.google.com. If they are revoked, then you'll need to click on the extension "browser action" icon to grant permission before ScrollMaps can execute. - Updated to Manifest v3
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Reviews (21 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-28
Kenny Umenthum

Has every little option that you would never want to configure, but doesn't have the option to let you scroll without holding command. Scrolling should be default, and then hold command button for the navigation. The smooth navigation feature is useless for anyone that enables three finger click-to-drag.

★☆☆☆☆2015-10-12
Giancarlo Dalla Vecchia

It does not work for me! When i try to move on the map with 2 fingers, it zooms!

★☆☆☆☆2015-06-24

Doesn't work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2015-06-21
B X

doesnt work at all. running yosemite os on google chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2015-04-03
********* Day

Works with embedded maps, but not with the new Google Maps that was rolled out recently. Needs an update.

★★☆☆☆2017-02-27
Malte Andersen

It keeps crashing without showing any warning or popup.

★★☆☆☆2016-06-15

With this enabled, PDFs cannot be opened within Chrome

★★☆☆☆2016-05-31
Daniel Saltz

This is a great idea, and the map scrolling worked great for me. However, when this extension was enabled, I became unable to open PDFs on chrome. I don't really see the connection, but I troubleshooted and I'm pretty sure its this extension that's causing the problem. Fix needed!

★★☆☆☆2015-07-21
Kareem Mobarek

I used to love it, but lately the zoom feature hasn't worked properly. Needs an urgent fix!

★★☆☆☆2014-08-24
Jeffrey Sun

Good attempt, but zooming does not work.

★★☆☆☆2014-08-03
Viviex Oversix

Yes, it allowed me to move the map about but totally removed the ability to zoom in n out using two finger gestures so sends me back to square1.

★★★☆☆2022-12-08
Karol

Works great with apple trackpad, but makes mouse wheel unusable for zoom. Would be nice to separate settings for trackpad and mouse.

★★★☆☆2015-05-18

Unfortunately this now breaks the new pinch to zoom behavior of Google Maps, so I'm not sure it's worth it. Hopefully Google will simply support this "scroll to drag" too, autonomously.

★★★☆☆2015-03-24
Victor Lazaro

Yes, it activates the 2 finger scrolling as it should be with Mac trackpads, but it breaks the pinch to zoom. Now I don't know which I want more...

★★★☆☆2015-03-04
Oskar Austegard

It does what it says, but is too aggressive in its application, attempting to inject js on each and every page, most often failing and throwing errors in the console. A more targeted extension would be welcomed.

★★★☆☆2015-02-01
Dante Lectro

It takes up to a minute to actually start working after a Maps tab have been opened/reloaded. Double tap to zoom-in and two finger tap (three finger tap on trackpad) to zoom-out would be nice. new Google Maps ScrollMaps 1.7 Chrome 40.0.2214.94 (64-bit) OS X 10.10.2 (14C109)

★★★☆☆2015-01-20
Albert Armea

Works great to make scrolling work, but attempts to zoom using only the trackpad are met with sadness (and scrolling north/south instead of zooming).

★★★☆☆2014-10-04
Daryl

Good but always triggers a jquery error in my console.

★★★☆☆2014-08-05
Tom van Beerschoten

Well, the app does what it says, but now I can't zoom in or out using two fingers on the touchpad anymore. Double-click works for zooming in though, but zooming out seems not possible. I'm running Windows 8.1 on a HP Envy TouchSmart notebook.

★★★☆☆2014-05-18
Jonathan Turner (peanutismint)

A great idea, but for two things: 1. I'd love to be able to scroll with one finger but zoom with two. It would mean not having to use my other hand to hold down a modifier key. 2. On some embedded maps, activating ScrollMaps seems to cause places of interest not to draw/appear. For instance, on the Parkopedia website, when ScrollMaps is engaged, none of the car parks seem to show. Luckily there's an option to disable the ScrollMaps extension for embedded maps. Other than that, great! :-)

★★★☆☆2014-04-18
Perets Yitzchak Jetter

Horizontal scrolling does not work. Very good otherwise.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 5.1.0
Updated Dec 13, 2025
Size 502KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026