Google search page too wide on my pre-retina mbp

[brianmowrey]

This happens when searching notable topics that bring up the info/ads column in search. Screenshot is at default zoom, in Safari Full Screen. Note the horizontal scroll bar: the page is about 5 pixels bigger than my display's 1280. Same behavior in Chrome.

I'd just as soon disable the "info/ads" column anyway, if I could. But the feeling that my Safari window is narrower than the current page is annoying. I think it's unintentional bad coding on Google's part. Planting this thread to see if anyone else is experiencing the same annoying behavior.

 

[brianmowrey]

Follow up: So, it's indirectly related to using external keyboard and mouse. The setting in "Sys Pref > General > Show Scroll Bars > Automatically Based on Mouse or Trackpad" is bizarrely responsive to my Logitech keyboard+mouse. As I was getting ready to shut down, and unplugged my Logitech receiver, the vertical scrollbar went away. Only then, did I realize that the vertical scrollbar was acting as a margin rather than an overlay.

When I change that setting to "When Scrolling", and connect my Logitech controllers, the margin-vertical-scrollbar does NOT appear, and two-column Google search results size at 1280 width. Further, when Safari is smaller than full-screen, Google search results can exceed the Safari window width without displaying the horizontal scroll bar until I use the trackpad to scroll horizontally.

So, not a weird Google issue, but a weird syspref issue...