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ERGH, something has been hit with the ugly stick.
I get that they think in todays age of wheel mice that you don't need a direction indicator, but it is jarringly ugly and out of place on almost every website I visit.
The new scroll bar in chrome.
ERGH, something has been hit with the ugly stick.
I get that they think in todays age of wheel mice that you don't need a direction indicator, but it is jarringly ugly and out of place on almost every website I visit.
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Google taking "chrome" out of Chrome.
I think visually it isn't too bad, but even though I don't use them, the arrows aren't something I want removing. Hopefully they'll be back.
I think you can adjust them a little bit by editing Chrome's "default" CSS files, but you probably won't get the arrows back.
Still, it looks pretty good on Hexus.
And isn't "Chrome" a strange word when you read it over and over?
I'm guessing they've just done it to expand the viewable area of the window, but it seems a bit overzealous to me for what it ultimately a tiny number of pixels, especially when the vast majority of PCs use widescreens. Really not keen.
Mis-clicking all the time doesn't help the process either.
Stuff like this really annoys me - why bother making a custom scrollbar and not just use the OS default?
(EDIT: and yes, I say that as a former Java developer... so let me rephrase - why make it look different for the sake of it? I understand why, as a developer, you might want to use something like Qt or GTK - or even Java... - but as a user I want an app to look and act like a native app unless there's an overriding reason not to, though I guess Microsoft are hardly following that these days with the jarring experience of Windows 8)
Last edited by malfunction; 16-01-2014 at 06:09 PM.
If anyone else has taken a dislike to the new Chrome scrollbar (or lack thereof), I've just come across this free app which puts them backIt also allows quite a degree of customisation...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...npakijod?hl=en
I've only just noticed..
my biggest gripes the lack of busy icon on the mouse cursor
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
I also really hate the zoom / fade they've stuck on select boxes (drop down menus). I always turn off the fade / slide type animations in Windows - they just annoy me, I know almost everyone else leaves them on but I bloody hate them, same goes for all the shiny desktop crap in Linux these days. Bah humbug.
Firefox doesn't do either but it does insist on having a light blue border for the tabs and address / tool bar and a bloody ugly orange tab and 'start menu'.
Even IE doesn't use the OS default scrollbar - for whatever reason it has larger arrows than the OS one (i.e. the explorer one). IE also slides open select boxes regardless of your Windows settings.
(for reference I'm on Window 8.1)
Last edited by malfunction; 17-01-2014 at 01:27 AM.
I don't like it either- it doesn't always seem to line up with the control.Originally Posted by malfunction
On win 7 you can't highlight the last item in the list either. You can select it but there's no visual feedback when you hover over it. Or is that just me?
No, it's not just you - the highlight doesn't work for the last row, you can select it though (Windows 8.1, Chrome Version 32.0.1700.76 m).
On my work laptop, after a recent batch update, the scroll arrows seem to be back. Chrome 35.0.1916.114 - not sure if that's the latest stable?
They appear to have fixed the drop down box too - you can actually highlight the first item again now
been running the canary build as the scaling on my qhd laptop screens very nice compared to the normal builds. also 64 bit so thats a bonus.
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
To be honest I like it, makes everything look more simple.
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