I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs.
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using
SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs. >>
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey
itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using
SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs. >>
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey
itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
On 12/22/25 7:44 AM, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using
SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs. >>>
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey >>> itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
*BUT*, as stated, I use Linux.
On 22.12.2025 14:44, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using
SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs. >>>
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey >>> itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
oh.. sorry, on Linux, maybe try:
about:config
layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible true
ciao..
On 12/22/25 7:56 AM, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:44, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using >>>> SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs.
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my
backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey >>>> itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
oh.. sorry, on Linux, maybe try:
about:config
layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible true
ciao..
That worked.
Now can I "have my cake and eat it too" ;}
Can it be set to be as wide as a SeaMonkey scroll-bar?
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
heh.. if micro$oft doesn't enshittify... then
Mozilla takes over cross platform:
- remove title bar
- remove title bar menu
- make scrollbar shitty
;)
On 22/12/2025 10:06 pm, Schugo wrote:
heh.. if micro$oft doesn't enshittify... then
Mozilla takes over cross platform:
- remove title bar
- remove title bar menu
- make scrollbar shitty
;)
userChome.css and userContent.css
On 22.12.2025 15:10, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/22/25 7:56 AM, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:44, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues.
As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using >>>>> SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs.
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my >>>>> backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey >>>>> itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical >>>>> scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
oh.. sorry, on Linux, maybe try:
about:config
layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible true
ciao..
That worked.
Now can I "have my cake and eat it too" ;}
Can it be set to be as wide as a SeaMonkey scroll-bar?
widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size false widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style 4 widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 20
ciao...
Proceed with Caution
Changing advanced configuration preferences can impact
Firefox performance or security.
when I followed your suggestion above.
On 12/22/25 8:20 AM, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 15:10, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/22/25 7:56 AM, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:44, Schugo wrote:
On 22.12.2025 14:37, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a tri-focal wearing octogenarian with vision/perception issues. >>>>>> As I started out in days of Netscape Navigator I eventually ended using >>>>>> SeaMonkey, having over the years chosen settings that accommodate my needs.
As Firefox comes as default browser with Debian Linux, I use it as my >>>>>> backup browser when a website chokes on my default settings or SeaMonkey >>>>>> itself.
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical >>>>>> scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
IIRC it's a Win10/11 thing:
In Windows Settings / Accessibilty there is a scrollbar setting.
ciao..
oh.. sorry, on Linux, maybe try:
about:config
layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible true
ciao..
That worked.
Now can I "have my cake and eat it too" ;}
Can it be set to be as wide as a SeaMonkey scroll-bar?
widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size false
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style 4
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 20
ciao...
Thank you.
Having spent decades in engineering support,
I appreciated the Firefox warning:
Proceed with Caution
Changing advanced configuration preferences can impact
Firefox performance or security.
when I followed your suggestion above.
The presence above of "non-native-theme" and "win" increases my caution.
I'm not familiar with Firefox documentation.
Where would I find published information on configuration issues.
I may not use Firefox as my default, but I should "think before tweak".
I may not go back to days of Turing, but do remember 12AX7's in CPUs ;}
On 22/12/2025 9:37 pm, Richard Owlett wrote:
As Firefox defaults to an extremely narrow and/or invisible vertical
scroll-bar in makes life annoying for one with dexterity issues.
How do I make it always visible and as wide as it is when you are
actually scrolling?
The scroll bar's appearance may be following the desktop manager's (e.g.
KDE, GNOME, IceWin) design, not totally of Firefox.
On 22.12.2025 15:53, Richard Owlett wrote:
Where would I find published information on configuration issues.
I don't know of any complete documentation..
you have to search
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