#4.34 / 259 rate

Win7 Scrollbars

20,000 users

2014-01-26

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This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

Scrollbars that match Windows 7's native appearance.

Newer versions of Chrome have replaced the system native scrollbars with a new design that, among other things, lacks the arrow buttons. This extension restores the scrollbars to the native Windows 7 appearance, including restoring the arrow buttons.

*** FAQs and Common Problems ***

* Why does Chrome warn that Win7 Scrollbars can "access my data on all websites"? Are you tracking me?

No.

Win7 Scrollbars does NOT "access your data," do any tracking, talk to any servers, or do any other nefarious thing you can think of. It is implemented in 100% CSS; it contains no JavaScript; and it does not access any external resources.

It does only one thing: restyle the scrollbars. And it does that entirely locally, on your computer.

Chrome is providing this warning because CSS is technically able to do other things, such as add and remove content from pages that you view. Win7 Scrollbars doesn't do that, but Chrome has no way of knowing that, so it provides the warning out of an abundance of caution.

* This doesn't work with drop-down menus.

That's correct. As far as I know, it is not possible to fix these with an extension.

* This doesn't work with URLs beginning with chrome://, with Chrome's built-in PDF viewer, or with Chrome's developer tools.

Unfortunately, extensions do not have access to these areas of Chrome.

* This doesn't work with URLs beginning with file://.

It does ... but you have to enable it. Open Chrome's menu and go to Tools / Extensions, or simply type chrome://extensions in the address bar. Look for Win7 Scrollbars, and check the box that says "Allow access to file URLs."

* This doesn't work in Chrome's incognito mode.

It does ... but you have to enable it. Open Chrome's menu and go to Tools / Extensions, or simply type chrome://extensions in the address bar. Look for Win7 Scrollbars, and check the box that says "Allow in incognito."

Reviews

Savannah

This was a really good extension! Appears on every site, and while it can look a bit awkward on some sites like the browser version of Discord, that's not the fault of this extension, lol. Unfortunately though, after a few weeks of using it, it just recently has been causing Status_Errors when Googling (so like you can Google things, but then if you tried to adjust the search in the Google bar--not the URL bar--or tried to click the images tab, it would just show a Status_Error). Such a shame as I really loved this extension! But it unfortunately made Google nearly unusable :(

ANP Kindle

The scrollbar itself will appear on nearly every site I visit aside from youtube, so that's nice (if it doesn't appear at first after you install it, reload your pages!) The arrows only appear on some sites, which I find odd, but when they do, it looks very cool. I don't know how they originally worked, having never used Windows, but basically if you click an arrow it'll automatically scooch your page up or down a tiny bit, which is pretty cool. I had to go into manage extensions to turn this one on since apparently chrome doesn't like it much anymore. Hopefully this extension will be updated so it doesn't get completely disabled, or someone will write a similar one that does adhere to guidelines. I will enjoy as long as it lasts <3