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).

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  • clayh@lemmy.ml
    41·
    1 year ago

    I use my pc with a “touchscreen” via VNC about 75% of the time.

    Tiny scroll bars can suck it.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      In that case you set the system to show them bigger, which should affect all apps.

      In fact I just tested this, and if I set Windows 11 to “always show scroll bars” (which matches your use case), Firefox immediately goes to full-size scrollbar mode.