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How to un-tiny scrollbars in Firefox (snee.la)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Firefox kinda sucks OOTB, these tweaks along with text render and smooth scrolling ones should be the default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Could you elaborate on the text render and smooth scroll tweaks? I'm always interested in toying around with this kind of stuff :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't remember all the settings I changed, it was years ago, but when I initially swapped from Chrome I found the text on Firefox was horrible. Here's what I found though for text:
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast = 100
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.pixel_structure = 5
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 5
gfx.font_rendering.fallback.always_use_cmaps = true

And for smooth scrolling:
general.smoothScroll.currentVelocityWeighting = 0
general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMaxMS = 250
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled = true
general.smoothScroll.stopDecelerationWeighting = 0.82
mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount = 23

These tweaks made it much nicer for me personally, of course text rendering may differ on OS (I use W10).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks a ton!