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Scrollbar modifications is a growing gripe of mine.

Even minor stuff. G+, for example, defaults (or defaulted to) to an exceptionally narrow scrollbar, a conspicuous violation of Fitts' law: make your UI control widgets as large as possible to allow for easy access.

I can only surmise that a designer was using Mac OS or another platform in which gesture / multi-touch controls worked around the need for scrollbar access. With a touchpad-disabled, TrackPoint-equipped, mouseless laptop, this was a frequent frustration.

Also happens the other way round - just try to scroll at e.g. http://store.y-3.com with a Magic Mouse/Trackpad — Basically impossible since you'll hit the page end just by touching the mouse.
Don't get me started on sites that hijack l/r arrows to navigate between pages on the site rather than align text on page.

Fucking NY Times.

There are so many mobile sites that have broken scrolling until the entire page is loaded, I almost invariably think Chrome crashed or something until I realise that it's some news site (it is always news websites that have this issue) and its JS.

Even funner are pages where scrolling stops working entirely when the page is fully loaded. As in, I can no longer read the article or zoom. So I have to refresh the page and hit the "stop" button before it finishes loading too much (but enough to have the text on the screen).