1802694 - Add a way to configure overlay scrollbars on Windows 11

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[soredake]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

By default scrollbars in firefox in windows 11 are TOO tiny, i don't how they look, changing widget.windows.overlay-scrollbars.enabled to false makes them bold, i remember that in earlier versions, maybe year ago or so scrollbars looked bold by default in windows 11.

Actual results:

Scrollbars are too tiny with widget.windows.overlay-scrollbars.enabled set to true

Expected results:

There should been option to revert scrollbars to old look.

Comment 1

[soredake]

Attachment: Scrollbar with default value (true).png

Comment 2

[soredake]

Attachment: Scrollbar when option set to `false`.png

Comment 3

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Hi,

Thank you for opening this enhancement. I will set this accordingly, as New. If this is not the correct component, feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.

Thanks for your input.

Comment 4

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

The option is in the windows settings: "Accessibility > Always show scrollbars". Alternatively you can disable overlay scrollbars on Firefox only via the pref you mention or ui.useOverlayScrollbars=0... So it's unclear what you're requesting that you can't do? do you want fat non-overlay scrollbars? Or something else?

Comment 5

[soredake]

do you want fat non-overlay scrollbars?

Yes, i want an option for this in settings, so i would not need to go to about:config and change widget.windows.overlay-scrollbars.enabled

Comment 6

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Thanks.