[SOLVED] Scrollbar on the recently updated Firefox
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I'm just wondering if I'm the only one that noticed the scroll bar on regular pages in Firefox 68 is no longer using the one from the system GTK theme:
You are not... that royally pissed me off. I'll quote myself from a post in another thread here:
I have been angry today, that Firefox 68 no longer respects GTK styling for the scrollbar. It defaults to very ugly, thin, hard to grab, hard to see when short, grey scrollbars and grey scrollbar track. It uses my GTK+ style in preferences pages in the browser, but not on sites. This is likely related to website CSS being able to change it, my guess is that they enforced it so that would work consistently. I have a black GTK+ style with glowing orange to black gradient, that I am very fond of.
I can't get my hover gradient, but I can at least override the behaviour by creating a chrome/userContent.css file so I can see and grab my scrollbar again.
The first colour value is for the scrollbar ("thumb") and the second is for the scrollbar track. As far as I can tell, scrollbar-width can be thin, auto, or none, with auto being OS defaults.
NOTE: In Firefox 68, they have disabled user customizations by default. Supposedly for "performance" they are no longer parsing userContent.css, userChrome.css, userChrome.xml etc. and you have to enable it in about:config
Thanks, TheRealGrogan. It's not so garish with my custom colours now. I didn't notice the outright lack of parsing user customisation files, because apparently I already had `toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets` set to true.
I can't get my hover gradient, but I can at least override the behaviour by creating a chrome/userContent.css file so I can see and grab my scrollbar again.
The first colour value is for the scrollbar ("thumb") and the second is for the scrollbar track. As far as I can tell, scrollbar-width can be thin, auto, or none, with auto being OS defaults.
NOTE: In Firefox 68, they have disabled user customizations by default. Supposedly for "performance" they are no longer parsing userContent.css, userChrome.css, userChrome.xml etc. and you have to enable it in about:config
Sorry if it's bad form to post to a "Solved" thread - I will repost as a new question if necessary?
I'm now on Firefox 70 with Numix theming, seeing the annoyingly thin scrollbars that are really difficult to grab and manipulate with the laptop touchpad. A different theme, e.g. Raleigh, shows thicker scrollbars.
Can you advise where I should put that "UserContent.css" file to have it picked up by Firefox, please? I'm on Xubuntu 18.04 if it's relevant.
It works beautifully (after I corrected my capitalisation of "userContent.css" ) and now my fat fingers can scroll up and down pages with ease again - and with a much prettier coloured scrollbar as an added extra.
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