Although I love the scrollwheel and you couldn't pry it from my cold dead hands, I use the scrollbar every day (in Windows 7, which has them) for two purposes:

Although I love the scrollwheel and you couldn't pry it from my cold dead hands, I use the scrollbar every day (in Windows 7, which has them) for two purposes: - Moving a whole page up or down by clicking on the grey bar, which is similar to pressing Page Up and Page Down, but it's much faster on screen when I already have the hand on the mouse and the window maximized (because of Fitts's law, the scrollbar has infinite width, while the keys are small). - Dragging around up and down in a long page to a different part of the document, in almost instant time. I HATE with all my strength how mobile browsers and apps have eliminated that option. Dragging a moderately long page to find a particular section (in, say, a Wikipedia article) with the touchscreen's physical scroll is a pain in the ass, and slow as molasses because the max speed is also capped at a low value. Is it that hard to show a drag handle after the drag event has started, and hide it when it ends?