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I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.



Can you actually grab it at all?

I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.


Barely. I have to try a few times.


Works fine for me.


Personally if you're altering browser chrome you've gone too far - it's the users browser, not the web designers.


Nowadays, I find the only interaction I have with the scroll bar is to look at it to determine how far down a page I am. I always use the scroll wheel on Windows or the two finger scroll on the Mac trackpad to scroll a page.


Yeah which is why its so frustrating that so many sites are updating to ones which hide the scroll bar.


This doesn't though.




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