Who else is having this problem? Did any one have the problem and then fix it? I’m reaching out to support to see if they can help, and any information you can provide would be helpful. For example, what machines/browsers are you have trouble on? When did the problem arise.
On our end its puzzling, because there have been no changes to our theme in quite a while.
BrianLopez
(Independent Christian Researcher (and IT Technician))
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Thank you Dr. Swamidass for following-up with this question of mine.
I wish to clarify that I always noticed this for many months already (I think! Unless I have a false memory!), but I just chose to report it now because I started to find it irritating to scroll the forum page up and down only using the mouse scroll and not being able to use the sidebar scroll on the right side of the forum pages.
I tried this on Firefox, Chrome, and the latest version of Microsoft Edge (because I just installed this Windows 10 Pro recently on my new laptop weeks ago).
Hmm. I suppose I can’t scroll using that scroll bar either on Chrome! I use the touchpad to scroll, so I did not notice it. Do any of these changes fix it for you @BrianLopez, @glipsnort , and @davecarlson? If so, which one?
Updating Chrome (which requires a restart) one problem for me. If i scroll with the track pad now, the scroll bar appears and I can now use it. However, I can’t use see scroll bar without scrolling with track pad first…
How is it in Safari?
Don’t forget that for long topics you have this scroll bar too:
BrianLopez
(Independent Christian Researcher (and IT Technician))
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I will also add that:
This happens to me before I changed my laptop and now after changing my laptop getting a new Windows 10 Pro installation with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge freshly installed.
I have been using the scroll bar, with firefox. It is somewhat tedious, but it does work. I move the slider all the way to the top, but then find it has only moved me up a tiny part of the way.
BrianLopez
(Independent Christian Researcher (and IT Technician))
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Okay, I just looked at “How to Fix Scoll Bar…”
My Google is up-to-date already:
Google Chrome is up to date
Version 91.0.4472.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I tried an Incognito window in Chrome and same problem.
I tried an Incognito window in Firefox and same problem, too.
I also just tried clicking on the sidebar arrows up and down (instead of the scrollbar) and nothing happens either.
I’ve been experiencing this for many months, I’ve been meaning to report it for a while but assumed I was the only one experiencing it.
I’m convinced it has something to do with the popup asking you to subscribe to the mailing list. I’ve noticed that when I have this problem, I usually have to manually scroll to the bottom of the thread (even if I’ve clicked a link from my notifications that should take me directly to a comment at the bottom of the thread). This often makes the mailing list popup appear (otherwise it doesn’t) and when I close that, the thread generally works normally again, including the scroll bar.
Everything is smooth for me now on Safari. Now when I click on this thread it actually takes me to the new comments like it’s supposed to, that’s a refreshing change.
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