4.3 Released

Hey guys, new version of Scroll to Top Button out, with some nice improvements!

• Decrease the load time for the button to appear, so that it shows up faster while the actual page is still loading! (See below for more details)
• When you print off a website/receipt/whatever in Chrome, the button will automagically be gone from the print! Very clever…
• Fixed a bug that allowed animations to build up, so if you ran your mouse over the button and took it off and put it back on repeatedly, the button would just keep blinking for however many times you did that.

I am working to get the button to load as quickly as possible so that you can jump to the top/bottom of the page as it loads. There are some limitations because since my button is not in the actual toolbar at the top of Chrome, what I have to do is essentially add my button into the code of every website. I actually did find a way to have the button load instantly before the page even loads, but that was too fast because the code couldn’t get added into the website’s code if the website did not exist yet.

Anyways, I’ll keep striving to get it to load as fast as possible. What I did this time, is that it used to load the website, then check to see if the website needs it and loads the button. Now it loads as the website loads, then checks if it should remove itself once the website finishes loading.

A prime example is Google.com, that page is only as big as your window, you can’t scroll. So if you visit Google, you might see the button for a second, but it will then disappear. BUT, when you start typing in Google, suddenly the page changes and you do need the button! Well, the second you scroll down, the button realizes it made a mistake and re-adds itself :)

(Source: scrolltotopbutton)