I sometimes open large files with dozens of pages of text in them. However, often I find that I drag the overlay scrollbar to the top or to the bottom of the window, but I am nowhere near the beginning or the end of the document.
Currently to finish scrolling I either:
- a) click the scroll button 50 times to go page by page.
- b) drop the scrollbar, move my mouse towards the bottom of the scrollbar and click and rescroll
I am really getting annoyed with this! Is something I am doing wrong? Is there another way to make it work just like regular scrollbars where you grab the elevator and drag to where you want to be?
The problem is most likely that you are not using the position indicator (the orange bit), but instead are scrolling using a random point of the right edge. So your scrolling looks like this:
Therefore, you finish with your dragged part at the very top, but because the handle keeps a constant position relative to the position indicator, the position indicator is not at the top -- and consequently your content is not at the top either.
Instead, you should drag the position indicator directly (for long documents, it can be a bit hard to see. To aid with recognition, the handle also gets an orange outline as soon as you are over the indicator):
This way, you drag the position indicator and if you scroll all the way to the top, also your content scrolls to the top.
That said, if all you want to do is scroll all the way to the top/bottom, there is quicker way to do that: Aim your mouse pointer to the top right or bottom right of the overlay scrollbar and press the middle mouse button -- this will directly jump to the corresponding position, i.e. to the top or the bottom of your document.