Firefox 100 released

Posted May 4, 2022 13:42 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: Firefox 100 released by nix
Parent article: Firefox 100 released

I agree completely. Please never take away the scrollbars, they are *very* useful.

If I understand it correctly, the option to always show the scrollbar has already disappeared?! Firefox developers, please please please revert this. Or make it optional and easy to configure. But please don't take my scrollbars away from me.

Also if I understand it correctly, the scrollbar hiding misfeature doesn't work on Windows 10 (only on Linux and Windows 11)? That's another reason not to upgrade to Windows 11 I guess, at least until the end of support for Windows 10.

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Firefox 100 released

Posted May 4, 2022 16:56 UTC (Wed) by ametlwn (subscriber, #10544) [Link] (1 responses)

rschroev wrote
> If I understand it correctly, the option to always show the scrollbar
> has already disappeared?!

No under Linux it can be configured under

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Firefox 100 released

Posted May 4, 2022 17:38 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164) [Link]

I sent my comment too fast.

> Scrollbars on Linux and Windows 11 won't take space by default. On Linux, users can change this in Settings.

That felt to mean like it's already not configurable on Windows 11, but now I reread the release notes which say

> On Windows, Firefox follows the system setting (System Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars).

So luckily still configurable.