QuickWheel turns your middle mouse button into an 8-direction radial navigation wheel. Hold, flick toward an action, and release. Your most common browser commands stay right around your cursor.
Move around the wheel to see what each direction does. QuickWheel uses the same simple radial layout for every action.
Open a duplicate of the current tab without going through the tab menu.
QuickWheel is a lightweight browser extension that puts common browser actions directly around your cursor.
Instead of moving through browser menus or reaching for controls around the screen, you can hold middle-click, flick in a direction, and release.
A radial menu gives each action a fixed direction around the pointer. Once you learn where an action lives, the gesture becomes a simple movement rather than another trip through a menu.
QuickWheel keeps that interaction inside a single ring so the interface stays compact and easy to scan.
QuickWheel's current wheel combines tab management, navigation, search, copying, translation, and media control.
Duplicate the current browser tab without opening the tab menu.
Smoothly scroll a long webpage back to the top.
Finds common search inputs, including inputs inside supported Shadow DOM components, and focuses them.
Toggle audio for the current tab without leaving the page.
Copy the page as a Markdown link, or include selected text as a Markdown blockquote above the link.
Copy the current page URL directly to the clipboard.
Translate readable page text in place without opening a separate translation tab.
Restore the most recently closed browser tab with one flick.
QuickWheel is built around a simple interaction instead of adding another permanent toolbar to your browser.
Eight equal radial sectors keep the wheel compact and make every action part of the same visual system.
The interaction is based on the direction of your pointer rather than clicking tiny interface controls.
Quick middle-clicks below the activation threshold are left available for normal browser behavior.
Scrolling is locked while the wheel is active so the page does not move underneath the gesture.
The wheel interface uses Shadow DOM isolation so page styles are less likely to interfere with its layout.
QuickWheel stays inactive until you invoke it instead of occupying permanent browser interface space.
The whole interaction is built around three simple steps.
Hold the middle mouse button anywhere on a webpage, or activate QuickWheel with Alt + Q.
Move the pointer away from the center toward the action you want to use.
Let go to execute the selected browser action immediately.
QuickWheel does not use analytics, advertising trackers, or telemetry to monitor how you browse. Its normal tab, search, navigation, and clipboard actions are handled by the extension itself.
The QuickWheel source code is publicly available on GitHub under the MIT License. You can inspect the extension, follow development, or build it yourself.
The practical details behind the QuickWheel interaction.