Clicking above or below the slider thingie advances or retreats your window by approximately one window’s worth of display. That’s useful, but I’d also like to be able to right-click in a scroll bar and get taken to that proportional spot in the document: Right click three-quarters of the way down and it shows you the document three-quarters of the way in. Sure, I could slide the slider thingie, but that requires more eye-hand coordination than my eyes and hands have put together.

Maybe LonghornVista – Could it be a more boring name? Why not something with some guts, like Winux or HAL? – will institute this, if it has time after implementing tag-based scroll bars.

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