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Too soon for these suppositions.

It's like the "users don't scroll" myth. If a user is reading to the bottom of the page he will flick it up to see if there's more below. And it's the designer's job to make sure that the right content is findable above or below the fold.

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I agree with designer's responsibility to maximize "findability" of content - however it's simply impossible to design for every single resolution and size of window. Until now, at least scrollbar was always there, no matter what resolution (if content was bigger), indicating more content. I agree it's to soon to predict effects of that change, and I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to understand what would be the benefits/reasoning behind the decision to change standard GUI element that already worked well.

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