overlay-scrollbars flag is missing in Chrome 78

[Jaiba Mon]

Chrome had these flags for years, and they worked perfectly without any issues:

#overlay-scrollbars

#overlay-scrollbars-flash-after-scroll-update

#overlay-scrollbars-flash-when-mouse-enter

But in Chrome 78 and 79 these flags are missing in the about://flags page.

I suggest to bring them back, since they were useful and ready for production.

[Elly Fong-Jones]

These flags all expired: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/flag-metadata.json?q=overlay-scrollbars+file:.json&sq=package:chromium&g=0&l=2784

I suggest getting in touch with the listed owners and/or filing a bug against them if you wish them to be unexpired.

-- elly

[Jaiba Mon]

Thank you!

[Edward Brown]

You can do what this user suggest. At least until Google fix it.

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/14340482?msgid=18435223

The file to modify on Windows 10 is: "C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State"

Before modifying the file asure your chrome is closed. Once it is you have to add the following to the beginning of the "Local State" file.
​"overlay-scrollbars@1"




The file must begin as follow:

"browser": {

  "enabled_labs_experiments": ["overlay-scrollbars@1"],

  "last_redirect_origin": ""

},


​Then save the file and reopen Chrome. It worked for me.

[Tommy Bergeron]

This fix doesn't work anymore, why did they remove this option? Bring it back PLEASE!!!

[Tommy Bergeron]

dunno why my last reply didn't work but here it is:

I found out that using this launch flag:

`--enable-features=OverlayScrollbar`

did the trick. So you have to add that to your shortcut, command, whatever.

i.e. chromium-browser --enable-features=OverlayScrollbar

Hope this helps!