I would like to add up and down arrows to my scrollbars in Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

If you are on any page that has a lot of length then it is impossible to grab the scrollbar thumb-wheel and move with any precision. Often I just barely move it and it moves up multiple pages.

Example 1 - Long list of email in Mozilla Thunderbird

This is especially true in Mozilla Thunderbird (for example) where I have thousands of email in my inbox. Without the arrows you literally cannot move the lines of the email precisely.

Yes, I can click in the list of email and arrow-key down but that is not convenient.

Example 2 - Long Article In Web Browser

Also, if you're reading a long article in your browser you will come up against this situation also, but even worse because arrow keys don't really work well on a text article.

Is This A Styling Thing?Can you provide the steps to adding the up/down arrows back to my scrollbars. I think this was a huge mistake in the UI to remove them.

What I've Tried?

I've installed the Tweaks program and tried various themes, but none of the default ones display up/down arrows on scrollbars. I haven't found a setting in Tweaks that changes it. If I've missed it, please point it out.

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