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Usability: Scroll bars #170

@OpinionatedGeek

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@OpinionatedGeek

Summary: The DuckDuckGo browser just doesn't seem to display a vertical scrollbar for any web pages, no matter how long they are. This leads me to lose context of where I am in the page, how long it is, and how much more there is to read or see.

To see what I mean, visit any long page - for example New York Times - you can scroll the page, but no scrollbar appears.

It's much more of an issue with articles on Medium etc. With no proportionally-sized scrollbar, I have no idea how long the article is when I scroll down a bit. If I want to find out how long the article is, I have to repeatedly scroll down until I see the end, then scroll back up to where I was beforehand - something made more difficult by (again) not having a scrollbar to know my previous location.

It's possible it's using a white scrollbar on a white background (Firefox Focus used to do this) but I haven't seen any indication of this.

Is it possible for you to show a contrasting-coloured proportionally-sized scroll bar for long pages? I'm not sure what level of control you have over the rendering engine here.

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