Scroll bar width and customization options

[goodiesgetthe]

Please, please, please give an option to set the width of the scroll bar in Firefox. It's so narrow that about 50% of the time when I try to drag it down, I end up dragging down the whole window. I'm sure it's nice for those who have their smartphone welded to their palm, but some of us still use PCs occasionally, and it's so annoying I usually just use the Page Down key, making the scroll bar pointless. I can't imagine anyone with less than great vision even trying to use Firefox because of this.

[emilio]

The scrollbars taking up space are implemented, and they follow system settings:

• On Windows 11: Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars
• On macOS: System Settings > Appearance > Show scroll bars > Always
• On Linux: Firefox Settings > Browsing > Always show scrollbars

To make further tweaks you need to get into about:config, but those just follow system settings.

[mmazzoni]

Is it possible to have thiner slide bars in Firefox, like Chrome or Edge. I use Windows 10 and they're very thick!

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[ssabs]

The three settings that worked for me are:

Widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override (sets the size)

Widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style (sets it to Windows 10 size)

Widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size (stops firefox from using your windows scroll bar settings).

PS (about 3rd  setting above): Even though in my case, I had increased the windows settings (inside regedit 'scrollwidth' & 'scrollheight' to my ideal '-378' from '-225'(windows 11 default), it didn't pick up that.

[wantapaint]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, finally got the scroll bar fixed!!!!!!!!!

[alinthecaptain]

larger/fatter scrollbar

Hi guys.

Can we please have a larger/fatter scroolbar?

Please, for the love of all the things in this Universe.

I'm on a 32" monitor, half a meter away, and I struggle to see where the hell this is.

How come, 20 years ago, we had way smaller monitors/resolutions and we had a proper visible scroolbar and we could customize it too (color, skins)? And now as the resolution increases, with space to spare, the bloody scrollbar got to a point of invisibility? What is the goal of this? What are you trying to achive by making the scroolbar invisible?

Thank you.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[brknhrt]

I struggled for a couple of years with this problem of the invisible scroll bar and tried many people's solutions, but none of them worked for me. Last week I went to Chat GTP asked it to  give me the specific instructions I needed. It worked. I can actually see the scroll bar now.