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How to disable autohide of scrollbar sidebar in Firefox

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On Firefox Linux 111.0.1, the scroll bar tend to autohide after a small delay how to disable this feature.

Seeking on search engine may bring the old result: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/670997 (back in 2010 13 years ago)

In order to help community I let a trace here of my search, it was a bit long, but I finally found getting help on IRC.

-)

Solution => Select “Always show scrollbars” in Preferences/General/Browsing.

The solution was coming from this source URL bellow: Its mention many more possible tips about GUI tweak too.

Hope that helps. Regards, Sylvain.

https://atkdinosaurus.wordpress.com/2021/05/13/how-to-fix-the-scrollbar-firefox-89-0-linux/

Copy paste in case the URL above vanish:

How to fix the scrollbar? (was Firefox 89.0/Linux)

Change toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config.

Change about:config settings: 

widget.non-native-theme.enabled true
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 12
widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size 1
widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.round-thumb false
widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons true
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style 4
widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled false
widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size false

Select “Always show scrollbars” in Preferences/General/Browsing.

Unselect overlay-scrolling in dconf-editor path “/org/gnome/desktop/interface” 

${HOME}/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
.scrollbar.vertical slider,
 scrollbar.vertical slider {
     min-width: 12px;
     max-width: 12px;
}

${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/nnnnnnnn.default-release/chrome/userContent.css:
:root {
     scrollbar-color: rgb(128, 128, 128) rgb(255, 255, 255);
}

On Firefox Linux 111.0.1, the scroll bar tend to autohide after a small delay how to disable this feature. Seeking on search engine may bring the old result: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/670997 (back in 2010 13 years ago) In order to help community I let a trace here of my search, it was a bit long, but I finally found getting help on IRC. ;-) Solution => Select “Always show scrollbars” in Preferences/General/Browsing. The solution was coming from this source URL bellow: Its mention many more possible tips about GUI tweak too. Hope that helps. Regards, Sylvain. https://atkdinosaurus.wordpress.com/2021/05/13/how-to-fix-the-scrollbar-firefox-89-0-linux/ Copy paste in case the URL above vanish: How to fix the scrollbar? (was Firefox 89.0/Linux) Change toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config. Change about:config settings: <pre>widget.non-native-theme.enabled true widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override 12 widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size 1 widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.round-thumb false widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons true widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style 4 widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled false widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size false</pre><br> Select “Always show scrollbars” in Preferences/General/Browsing. Unselect overlay-scrolling in dconf-editor path “/org/gnome/desktop/interface” <pre>${HOME}/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css: .scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertical slider { min-width: 12px; max-width: 12px; } ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/nnnnnnnn.default-release/chrome/userContent.css: :root { scrollbar-color: rgb(128, 128, 128) rgb(255, 255, 255); }</pre><br>

Modified by cor-el