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Steel Contributor

Mar 13, 2020

scrollbars aren't dark when Edge is in dark mode (Windows)

I had posted about this issue in the summer, Elliot Kirk responded "We are aware of this issue, it has several pieces to it. we have already added dark mode to the browser frame scroll bars. There ar...

Anonymous

Mar 24, 2020

Bdsrev Update from the team: improving the scrolling UI has been on their mind and is something they're actively working on. One of the confounding factors is that websites can often choose the appearance of their respective scrollbars, separate from MS Edge.

However, if you try the Canary preview channel, you can see some improvements on our internal web pages (like Favorites, History, etc.) Here's a screenshot of our Stable channel (top) versus Canary (bottom) in the "Settings" page.

But to make sure that we fully understand what you're seeing, can you please share some screenshots of your scrollbar UI, either here or via in-browser feedback? And can you please confirm what channel you're using?

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

Bdsrev

Steel Contributor

Mar 24, 2020

Sure, go to this link and look at the screenshot in comment 0 for an example ("windows10darkmodescrollbar.png") https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=985408

Of course it's not just with youtube.com, it's with any website that has a dark theme.

A few days ago someone from the Edge team wrote on the chromium bug for this issue "We plan to tackle this following the shipment of controls on by default in all Chromium builds"

Thank you Fawkes 🙂