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Still no scroll bars on New Tab/Start page! Can't be just me!
Ever since Edge Chromium was released, there have been no scroll bars on the New Tab/Start pages. I have reported this numerous times and it still has not been fixed. This problem makes it almost impossible to read the news on that page. I would like to use the Dev version for my default browser, but I am tired of going back to regular Edge to read the news. Am I the only one that has this problem? I know a lot of people have their own start pages, but I like the furnished one. I would think you would want to fix that just to leave a better impression for new users. If they can't use that page and don't know how to change it, they are going to be unhappy. Please fix this! It can't be that difficult to fix.
Thanks, Mike
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Hi MrMikeH
Good news!
they listened and added what was requested here, scrollbars on the new tab page/start page/NTP
here is the screenshot of it in the lastest Edge insider Version 80.0.359.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
Also i tried it in all available NTP layout, the scrollbar is available in all of them 🙂
HotCakeX Great. Now they just have to listen and add the scroll bad to the Favorites list OR add a way to control the speed of the scroll as that little arrow at the bottom is just way .. too .. dang .. slow. It seems to me they keep changing things and removing features people have come to love and enjoy only to add new things to appeal to folks who want to see it work differently. A great way to alienate people and force them over to other products. I mean if you want to build the new tool on the Chrome Chasis then I might as well stop using MS products and go to Google, right???
I guess that what the OP is trying to said is that there is no scroll bar to scroll up.
For me personally I it annoying to scroll the mouse all the up to reach the upper part of the news if I scroll it too far down.
Having a scroll bar would be nice that I capable to scroll up fast.
Limyx826 Exactly, scroll bars provide a quick way to get to the bottom or the top. They also provide a way of reading the news without having the constant refreshing that takes place as you scroll down. If you use the arrow at the bottom of the scroll bar to scroll down, instead of clicking on the scroll bar itself and moving the mouse down, you don't get that constant refreshing that cause you to lose you place on the page.
I fully agree with the mouse scrolling comment. What I really would like is a back to top button like the one on this particular page we are on now. Limyx826 .
Jacques Van de Meerssche
"What I really would like is a back to top button"
Hi Jacques,
That is right https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/dobeplcigkjlbajngcgnndecohjkjmia
I have been happily using it for a long time.
Cheers,
Drew
- His main concern is for scrolling down to the news section but sure if you have no scrollbar you can neither scroll down nor up.
MrMikeH
Hi Mike & welcome,
"Please fix this! It can't be that difficult to fix.", Mike
The degree of difficulty is a moot point as there is nothing to fix, in the 1st place.
The old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies here. There is no recognition of a 'problem' needing to be 'fixed'. One can certainly & very easily scroll down the New page & view the news items without a scroll bar... there isn't one, true, nor any need, so, it isn't seen a problem needing fixing; a likely theory on how the Team may be viewing this. You can save a wee bit of scrolling by hitting the button circled below which, pulls the news up to the top & then scroll down from there for more news items. Scrolling (anywhere) does not require a bar.
Cheers,
Drew- No, I don't accept that! Scroll bars are basic and need to be included on EVERY page. Users shouldn't have to find a work around on their own. For a page to be functional, it has to have scroll bars period. As for the picture you included,
As far as the picture goes, I don't know what you are pointing to, but if you talking about the line that starts with My Feed, then all those pages have no scroll bars either.MrMikeH
Too bad you sound quite upset. Any page can be scrolled with a bar or any need for one, even though you fell one is required. Pointing you to the button circled in red. As stated, it saves some scrolling as it pops the News to the top for you. Here it is again. Tip: Think you need to look a wee bit further down. Looking for ⬇ Personalized news & more button. Not, the words/links below it.
Well you might not have a problem with the design on the new tab page but clearly OP has and that's why he posted in this forum.
adding a scroll bar to the new tab page would help his situation. Windows users have lots of possibilities to customize their OS and how they interact with it. it's called personalization.
would be great if not a single user was left behind and everybody enjoyed the new Edge browser.
- Hi,
it's true that there is no scroll bars present in the new tab page but it never caused any problems for me or other family members that use Edge insider canary. i just use the mouse scroll button to scroll down to the news or in case of touch based devices, scroll down with a finger.
am i missing something here?HotCakeX No, you are not missing anything, but I have my mouse set to scroll by pages, not by lines and I don't want to have to keep changing that setting just so I can read the news. Almost every page on the internet has scroll bars and I expect this one to be no different. Users might think twice about using a browser that doesn't have scroll bars on the start page. I don't think Microsoft wants that either.
- There is a button at the bottom of the page called "personalized news & more" you can press it and it will take you to the news section.
how did you set your mouse scroll button to scroll by pages?
