The browser person interface is a factor most customers most likely don’t care about so long as it isn’t distracting. Whereas Microsoft Edge seems alright (minus the killed Mica materials, which is type of nonetheless accessible), there may be one factor that retains nagging me and plenty of different prospects: scrollbars. In Microsoft Edge, scrollbars are sometimes inconsistent of their seems, measurement, theme, and extra, which creates pointless distraction, particularly in darkish mode, and ruins the general look. Luckily, there’s a technique to repair that.

A part of the issue is that many web sites use customized scrollbars for no matter purpose. A while in the past, Microsoft added a brand new accessibility characteristic that allows you to flip off customized scrollbars in Edge and have a single, easy, and constant scrollbar on each web site. Right here is the right way to allow it:

1. Open Microsoft Edge and go to Settings > Look > Browser habits and options.
2. Toggle on the “Flip off customized scrollbars” characteristic. After this, Edge will swap to the usual always-on scrollbars. They may look the identical on all web sites, however the issue is that they’re fairly giant and distracting. Plus, they’re mild while you use darkish mode and darkish while you use mild mode. That habits is intentional for accessibility causes; it isn’t a bug. Nonetheless, if you do not want contrast-y scroll bars, you can also make them look significantly better.

3. Now, open edge://flags and discover the “Fluent overlay scrollbars.”

4. Set the flag to “Enabled” and restart the browser.
5. Go to Settings > Look > Browser habits and options and switch off the “All the time present scrollbars” characteristic.

6. A lot better!

Now, Microsoft Edge will use easy, minimalistic “fluent” scrollbars that solely seem on the display while you scroll a web page. Additionally, you may hover the cursor over the scrollbar to make it bigger and scroll a web page the old-school method by dragging the bar up or down.