This is the url for google's mobile search page, which water downs the content for speed and small displays. It may make things speedier:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n
What does the flipbar do on a webpage? I'm guessing left/right moves between links and long-left/right is page up/down.
I'm guessing the kindle browser reformats everything into pages and has none of this scrollbar silliness.