Vertical scroll bars have been hijacked - firefox v89.0 (64 bit)

[Robbi Nespu]

On 6/16/21 3:45 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am running the above version of firefox, on UbuntuMATE Linux v 21.04 .
> 
> I have recently noticed that the vertical scroll bars in firefox have
> been hijacked, and replaced with a designed to be unusable, useless,
> thin, thread-like system of things.
> 
> I get the same, thin, vertical scroll bar in also, Brave, Vivaldi, and
> Chromium web browsers.
> 
> I get the more traditional width vertical scroll bar, in Seamonkey,
> Konqueror, and Thunderbird v78.8.1 (64 bit), although, whilst the
> Konqueror vertical scroll bar is the desired width, it is not the
> expected colour.
> 
> In Seamonkey v2.53.7.1 Build identifier: 20210410163459 the vertical
> scroll bars are as they should be - usable, and, consistent with the
> system windows theme, but, in firefox, the vertical scroll bars are
> designed to be unusable, and, are not consistent with the system
> windows theme.
> 
> Does anyone know how to regain usable vertical scroll bars in firefox,
> or, do we need to uninstall it, and, install a sufficiently earlier,
> insecure, version of firefox, in order to regain usability?
> 
> Thank you in anticipation.
> 

I think that is the trend nowadays UX/UI stuff, I actual don't like it 
to. Nobody likely to use scrollbars anymore.  Everyone should be using 
either a scroll-wheel or a touch screen something.

Yes it look ugly but I found it intuitive to inform me how long this 
page and how many "scrolling" are left. I really like thick scroll bar 
when browsing using desktop.

Anyway, I use an add-ons[1] it work nicely even you can put color on 
scroll bar.

The code repository are here[2] and you can find link for chrome too.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/custom-scrollbars/
[2] https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar

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