Subtle Scrollbars
Semi-thin scrollbars, styled to blend background with page contents
What is Subtle Scrollbars?
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Summary
Replaces the stock scrollbars with 6px-wide versions that have rounded ends, no arrows, and a background that attempts to blend with the page. The bars are a medium grey, and nearly black on hover.
Scrollbars for UI elements like drop-downs are not affected, but iframes and scrolling divs usually are - and with backgrounds that truly blend with the page.
This extension is extremely lightweight - just a vew lines of CSS, and roughly equivalent to restoring support for Custom.css userstyles without any interface to edit the new CSS file. No more expertise is needed to tweak this extension than to edit the Custom.css file Chrome no longer supports.
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Pros
- Blends in perfectly with every website
- Slim design, discreet yet easy to spot
- No setting up required
Cons
- Does not disappear after not scrolling for a few seconds
- Not actually transparent with Chromium under Linux
- Some users prefer a different type of scrollbar
Most mentioned
- Blends in perfectly with every website
- Slim design, discreet yet easy to spot
- No setting up required
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Safety
Risk impact
Subtle Scrollbars is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Subtle Scrollbars has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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