Scrollbars - Make Them Bigger
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If you want to skip the floof and see the settings to tweak on Firefox, go to Settings to Tweak below. Don’t you love how tiny scroll bars have become??? I sure do! A bunch of other people on lemmy totally love it too! Just search for scrollbars on lemmy and you’ll see the amount of love there is in the tiny-scrollbar-loving community: Annoyed with the scrollbars being tiny on Firefox, I messed around with some settings in firefox’s about:config (https://support.

Tl;Dr:

In about:config, I changed these preferences:

  • widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.round-thumb: false - This makes the scrollbar not have rounded edges
  • widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size: 1 - This makes the scrollbar ‘chonkier’ within the scrollbar region
  • widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override: 20 - This increases the scrollbar region size. Larger number = wider scrollbar
  • Make sure widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled is set to false - This should have been set to false when you enabled “Always show scrollbars”

On Windows, Firefox follows the system setting (System Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars).

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    The 2 pixel wide scroll bar has been a pet peeve of mine for a while on my 1440p display.

    Thank you stranger!

    • n3er0o@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      Interesting. I use a 32" 1440p screen (100% scaling) and I prefer the smaller one. I always found scroll bars to be unnecessarily large (especially in drop downs) as I solely use then as a visual indicator.

      I’m glad we have options so everyone can have their preferred size!

      • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I find there’s a small line between it being too small and too large. It’s great that we can have the option to choose though.

  • Opafi@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    With mouse wheels and touch screens everywhere, I can’t even remember the last time I wanted to drag a scroll bar. Even worse, I have faint memories of infinitely scrolling websites that just hated it when you dragged the scroll bar. What do you need that interaction for? I’m not judging, I’m just curious about the use case.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      I seldom care to manually interact with it, but by god do I hate when it’s so narrow, low-contrast, and auto-hiding as to be virtually invisible (and I’m not even visually impaired!).

      I want to know where I am, and how long the document is. Why are modern GUIs trying so hard to hide this information from me while pretending they aren’t, like a child stubbornly avoiding eye contact when the teacher asks a question?

  • verysoft@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    Firefox kinda sucks OOTB, these tweaks along with text render and smooth scrolling ones should be the default.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Genuine question. Who still uses a scrollbar for more than a visual indicator of progress?

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.tfEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Pretty much never for me except when I remote in to MacOS machines for some reason Shift + Mouse Wheel doesn’t scroll horizontally. So I have to tap a left or right arrow key and then drag the bar.