Friday, June 19, 2026

Linux Tweaking - Firefox Scrollbars

Mwhahahaha! I think I've managed to figure out a bunch of settings to force Firefox on Linux to finally keep the scrollbars visible, AND to make them much thicker! (i.e. as seen to the side) 

 


 

Key Points:

*  widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled  = false

    This seems to be the key to making them permanently visible, by forcing them to get their own space permanently allocated to them, removing their need to keep fading out

 

*  widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size

*  widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.size   

    These two are used to make the scrollbar a much more decently visible + clickable size.  (#SayNoToSkinny)

 

* widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style

    I'm not entirely sure what the various values here that can be used, but will note that the approach used by one commenter of setting it to "4" will give you a massive "square block" design (i.e. no rounded edges, and much thicker)

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