Microsoft Edge Joins Chrome in Matching Scrollbars to Your Theme

Recently, we reported Google is working with Microsoft to make Chrome’s scrollbar color match the browser theme. The flag responsible for that is now available in Edge Canary, and the feature works in Edge when you enable it.

Microsoft Edge, like Chrome, has scrollbars that respect the operating system theme settings or default browser styling. These Chromium-based browsers’ scrollbars do not automatically adapt to custom browser themes.

Like many contributions to Chromium, Microsoft has helped develop this feature to enable scrollbars to follow browser themes – improving personalization and making Chrome and Edge’s interface feel more integrated when using custom-colored themes.

Microsoft Edge Canary introduces a flag that allows the main scrollbar of the browser window to dynamically adjust its colors to match the Edge browser theme.

‘If enabled, makes the root scrollbar follow the browser’s theme color.’ — The ‘root scrollbar follows browser theme’ flag description reads.

Until now, if you apply image themes available in Edge’s appearance settings, scrollbars won’t follow them. Now, Edge’s scrollbars match them, including even if you install custom themes available in the Microsoft Edge Add-ons Store.

We have tested various colored themes in Edge, including this theme from Microsoft from the Edge Add-ons Store—the scrollbar blended with the theme beautifully. This comes as another improvement in browser customization and personalization.

Microsoft’s theme-aware scrollbars align root scrollbar colors with browser themes to improve personalization and UI consistency. Fluent Scrollbars are ideal for this feature due to their simple design and high contrast, while CSS-styled scrollbars remain unaffected.

Fluent Scrollbars are enabled by default starting with version 133 and are set to become the standard in the future.

We also noticed themed scrollbars support Chrome’s internal pages, such as the New Tab Page, whereas Microsoft Edge doesn’t for NTP.

Apart from this, Microsoft may have briefly removed Google and other Search Engines on April 1st in Edge Canary. Additionally, Microsoft tests color and Image themes in Edge’s Appearance Settings.

What’s your take on Edge supporting custom color-themed scrollbars? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.