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[Closed] Chrome has nicked my arrows

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Scroll bar arrows that is - who the flip decided we don't need them any more?


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 9:15 pm
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Same here. Some other little things going on too. Not sure I'm happy 🙁


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 9:17 pm
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The second of the new changes, however, is perhaps even more alarming. In this release of Chrome, even the desktop version of the browse now dispenses with native, standard UI controls like radio buttons and scrollbars. Instead, it uses non-standard UI controls that match the look and feel of Chrome for Metro and thus Chrome OS.

http://winsupersite.com/cloud/chrome-32-vs-windows


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 9:21 pm
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There is an add-on called Rescroller I found to replace arrows - but still not happy either.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 9:21 pm
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Page up/Down/End still has scroll bars, can't say I've noticed until I looked across now.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 9:33 pm
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Serve 'em right if users ditch Chrome for other browsers; the loss of advertising might encourage the dozy idiots to rethink this dumb idea.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:30 pm
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Why do people need scroll bar arrows on a desktop browser?

Don't you have a wheel on your mouse and/or a keyboard right in front of you?

Do people actually click away at the arrows to scroll?

*confused*


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:35 pm
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yep Graham people are creatures of habit, as I said above I didn't know they were gone until I looked 🙂

Serve 'em right if users ditch Chrome for other browsers; the loss of advertising might encourage the dozy idiots to rethink this dumb idea.

easily fixed though
There is an add-on called Rescroller I found to replace arrows

a nice open platform with endless scope for customisation 🙂


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:43 pm
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At work I use a graphics pen. You can scroll using the pad, but it's not as easy as using the scroll wheel on on the mouse, so I use the scroll bar on the screen generally.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:46 pm
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if they have done that. what else have they taken away.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:53 pm
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The second of the new changes, however, is perhaps even more alarming. In this release of Chrome, even the desktop version of the browse now dispenses with native, standard UI controls like radio buttons and scrollbars. Instead, it uses non-standard UI controls that match the look and feel of Chrome for Metro and thus Chrome OS.
http://winsupersite.com/cloud/chrome-32-vs-windows

That link is probably even too whiney and melodramatic for in here!!


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 10:54 pm
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That link is probably even too whiney and melodramatic for in here!!

Well, what can you expect from Windows users. Drama queens, the lot of 'em.

if they have done that. what else have they taken away.

OUR FREEEEEEEEDOM!

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Posted : 16/01/2014 10:57 pm
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Can we file this one under: First World problems, oh won't someone please think of the children.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 11:00 pm
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Who the hell clicks on scroll bar arrows? Why would anyone ever want to do that? I think the last time I did was in Windows 3.1.


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 11:00 pm
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Who the hell clicks on scroll bar arrows?

The OP?


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 11:02 pm
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if they have done that. what else have they taken away.

If you didn't notice do you care? Was it a bad thing?


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 11:02 pm
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Who the hell clicks on scroll bar arrows? Why would anyone ever want to do that?

+1


 
Posted : 16/01/2014 11:20 pm
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I use a laptop with a touchpad and no mouse, so yes, the arrows are very useful.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:23 pm
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This is a huge problem

😀

Lady Gresley - can you do two finger scrolling on the touchpad?


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:26 pm
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Don't you find using the keys a bit easier that trying to hit tiny arrow buttons with a touchpad?

(ie. PageUp / PageDown / Home / End / Arrow keys?)


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:28 pm
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Wow, 2 finger scrolling!! That's amazing!!

Thank you.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:36 pm
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Lady Gresley - can you do two finger scrolling on the touchpad?

and if not two-finger, then one finger on the side of the touchpad.

or if a thinkpad, middle trackpad button and nipple (ooererrr)


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:37 pm
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Lady Gresley - can you do two finger scrolling on the touchpad?

Oi Clubber... rudy boy 😀

Scroll bar arrows.... how 90's. TBH I hadn't noticed!


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:39 pm
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I use a laptop with a touchpad and no mouse, so yes, the arrows are very useful.

Don't most laptops have some scrolling mechanism in the touchpad? On a Mac you can scroll with two fingers - on my GF's old laptop there was a little strip down the side you could scroll with.

I don't know if I'd bother using the internet if I still had to click on the arrows! There's not been any in safari for a while now I don't think.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:40 pm
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My netbook has two finger scrolling, but my old laptop doesn't. It is about 6 or 7 years old though.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:42 pm
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Don't most laptops have some scrolling mechanism in the touchpad?

+1, even my Mum's shonky, cheapo Acer laptop had a middle button your could configure to do window scrolling.

Now she's got a Chromebook with the two finger scrolling thang 🙂


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:44 pm
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I don't use the arrows but I do grab the bar to move to the top or bottom of the page.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:51 pm
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I don't use the arrows but I do grab the bar to move to the top or bottom of the page.

You could always use...

Shift+Space Bar > Up
Space Bar > Down

....to go page by page up.

or..

Home & End keys will take you directly to the top and bottom of the page.

(Mac: Command (?) + Arrow Keys)


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:53 pm
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Shift+Space Bar > Up
Space Bar > Down

Ta!


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 12:54 pm
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usual story a new coder has been employed and wants to change for the sake of it. Have you noticed how googlemaps has changed? Bloody annoying having to form new habits.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:03 pm
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usual story a new coder has been employed and wants to change for the sake of it. Have you noticed how googlemaps has changed? Bloody annoying having to form new habits.

Yup. Some new guy has just started at Google and has the power to implement new features/remove old ones into the stable build of Chrome and Google Apps.

*s****s*


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:07 pm
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yah ok so I may have the position wrong, maybe it's a new brand manager, but somebody thinks its clever to change stuff for the sake of it. I use expensive software every day and it is a significant business cost to deal with constant "upgrades". We tend to sit on them and do them every 6 months.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:11 pm
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How has google maps changed?


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:28 pm
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How has google maps changed?

[s]They've drawn penises on Botswana.[/s]

Have a look: www.google.co.uk/maps/about/explore/


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:35 pm
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grum, do you know I cant find it now, I keep ending up on a google map page with the controls (like satelliete images or not, streetview etc)down the bottom, when normally they are top left. but when I googled it just then it was back to the old style. hmmmmmmm


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:35 pm
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LG - as has been suggested, you can usually set up the right hand portion of the pad to allow scrolling - it'll be under trackpad settings.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 1:48 pm
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It's probably worth checking the Wellers Auction site to see if the arrows have turned up there.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 2:06 pm
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I used to use double click to zoom on Google maps, that doesn't work on the new version.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 2:09 pm
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Page up / Page down scroll a page at a time. Up and down cursor keys scroll a line at a time. Home and End will go to the top / bottom of the page.

On the scroll bar, clicking above or below the 'handle' (the bit that scrolls) will page up / down. Grabbing the handle by clicking and holding on it will allow you to drag it up and down.

Many trackpads have some sort of scroll functionality, though it may be disabled by default. On mine, the very right-hand edge will scroll if I tap, hold and drag. On my work laptop there's a 'middle button' which puts the trackpoint into scroll mode. Might be worth googling / looking for settings for it in control panel.


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 2:21 pm

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