Down arrow in scroll bar missing

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Down arrow in scroll bar missing

Most of the time the down arrow on the scroll bar is missing or occupies the same space as the page expansion square in the lower right hand corner. This happens whether the up scrolling arrow is at the bottom or the top. It happens with all pages on Firefox and most pages from search engines. Sometimes it is there. It is on this page and some linked pages.

emac, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Feb 8, 2008 1:37 PM

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V.K.

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Feb 8, 2008 2:26 PM in response to donernst

try resetting the scrollbar arrow location in system preferences->appearance. Just change it from together to at top and bottom and see if it clears things up.

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donernst Author

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Feb 9, 2008 12:03 PM in response to V.K.

see original query. Already tried puting up arrow at top then bottom.

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V.K.

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Feb 9, 2008 12:44 PM in response to donernst

strange problem. Not sure if it will help but you can try this:

run the following command in the terminal

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth

restart Firefox and see what happens. the above is supposed to put up and down scroll arrows both at the top and at the bottom of the page.

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rmagee

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Feb 10, 2008 5:22 AM in response to donernst

I donernst got a solution for this years ago, but for those who have this problem today and found this by googling for a solution. I found one when I was having this problem with Foxfire. By going to View and choosing a new text size I was able to get my down scroll bar to reappear. Not elegant but a solution...

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