Google changed the scroll bars on Chrome in January in an attempt to unify its look with ChromeOS. In the process, they are now much harder to see and the up/down arrows are gone. Talk about a mistake. Even a casual usability test would have told them what a bad idea this was.
They claim they cannot revert this back. Yet, there are simple extensions that people have written that do exactly that. Here is the one I am running: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/win7-scrollbars/cifcnoebhbpdndjendfkpehpfbglgfkc
It converts the scroll back to the embossed look that Windows has which is much more visible. And brings back the step up/down arrows. This is what they will look like:
Note that it only works on new windows you open or when you restart Chrome.
They claim they cannot revert this back. Yet, there are simple extensions that people have written that do exactly that. Here is the one I am running: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/win7-scrollbars/cifcnoebhbpdndjendfkpehpfbglgfkc
It converts the scroll back to the embossed look that Windows has which is much more visible. And brings back the step up/down arrows. This is what they will look like:
Note that it only works on new windows you open or when you restart Chrome.