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art3030
New member
Status: New idea

Please fix the skinny scroll bars in Thunderbird.  I have tried everything in the about:config to no avail.  I can't go on with them having a thin width.  And keep them visible.

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Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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Diuran
Strollin' around

I agree, bar is too small any option to change width will be appreciated by the users.

heynah2
New member

Yes PLEASE! I want to see my scrollbars, not fish for them... 🙄 And I want to be able to select and scroll easily without super precision mousing about!  

I want to pay attention to content while scrolling, not be hunting and worrying about finding the scrollbar!

bgateley
New member

Definitely increase the scroll bar width!

GeorgeDenton
New member

Hi,

An option somewhere to always show expanded scrollbars would be great.

MattAuSupport
Familiar face

Is this something related to a specific operating system?  I use Windows 10 and the width of my scroll bars remains unchanged since about Version 2.

This is what they look like to me.

MattAuSupport_0-1672842466358.png

I understand Windows 11 has some funky tiny scroll bars. I googled changing those and got this fairly straight forward tutorial on modifying the Windows 11 scroll bar width. https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-scrollbar-size-in-windows-11.6465/

 

Rich888
New member

I totally agree the scroll bar is too skinny!

Rich888
New member

I agree scroll bar is way too skinny.  There should be a simple adjustment without having to use regedit (if that even works).

DavidR
New member

I agree. The new skinny scrollbars are not useful. They look more attractive, at the price of functionality. In Windows 11, I have set scrollbars to a wide with. However, Thunderbird seems to ignore this setting.

blued
Making moves

This only happens to me in windows 11 and thunderbird. Someone above posted a link on how to adjust scroll bar width for windows 11 but it has no effect on TB. Firefox has wide scroll bars in win 11, its just TB.