What’s with the trend of tiny and hidden scrollbars? You can hear some people of all stripes, presumably old enough to remember a time when accessibility concerns mattered to the point that they were solved at the OS level complain about the size of scrollbars nowadays (wherever you can still find them): on Windows, on Linux, on MacOS, on Chrome, on Firefox…

People are supposedly only using scroll wheels or trackpads nowadays, so scrollbars are seen as a distraction. Maybe it’s just my age showing but I still find scrollbars useful sometimes, if only as visual indicators of where I stand in a large article or a big document. And I usually find them more efficient when I only want a fine tweak of my position in a page or, to the contrary, when I want to get back quickly to the top of an infinite scrolling page.

Anyway if you think like me that you could use bigger scrollbars on Firefox, open the configuration editor (about:config) and set the following values:

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override         16
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style                 4
widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size   false

Style 4 represents Windows 10 scrollbars, which IMHO are the most adequate for most situations, but you can explore other options.

No need to restart your browser. 😊