By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
Rolling the Chrome vertical scroll bar can not only help viewing a full web page, but also enable you to locate the wanted content in a website. When the vertical scroll bar is missing in Chrome, you may scroll the web page with up&down arrows or the space buttons, which can't lead you to the aimed section of a web page accurately. Therefore, it's necessary to get back the disappeared Chrome vertical scroll bar and you can try the following 5 ways to fix the Chrome vertical scroll bar is missing issue easily.
Quit Chrome and restart it. Then see if the vertical scroll bar in Chrome is back. If you still can't find the vertical scroll bar, continue to try the next way.
Enabled extensions can also cause the Chrome vertical scroll bar missing problem. You can disable all extensions and then reboot Chrome. If the vertical scroll bar is back, the vertical scroll bar disappears because of one or some extensions. To seek the problematic extensions, you can each time turn on one extension restart Chromesee if the scroll bar exists. Repeat the operations above until you find the problematic extension. Then just remove it and you can enable other extensions for use.
If the Chrome vertical scroll bar disappeared after you added a new extension to Chrome last time, you can directly click the Extensions option under the Chrome Menu
to remove the extension and restart Chrome to check whether the vertical scroll bar is shown.
Step 1: Launch Chrome > search chrome://flags > type Overlay Scrollbars in the search bar.
Step 2: Click Disabled in the drop-down menu.
Step 3: In the end of the page, click Relaunch Now to make the change take effect.
Step 1: Click the Menu button and choose Settings in its drop-down menu.
Step 2: Go to the Advanced Settings section, press the down arrow button on your keyboard to arrive at the Settings page's bottom. After that, select the Restore settings to their original defaults option.
Step 3: In the pop-out window, choose Reset settings. Now, close Chrome and open it again to see if the issue is fixed.
When the ways above don't work. It's time to reinstall Chrome. In the Uninstall Google Chrome prompt, don't tick the Also delete your browsing data option, which can keep your bookmarks and some other data commonly. However, to avoid the unexpected data loss, it's suggested to back up your bookmarks and other important data firstly.
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