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  1. If you’re in the mood for anything related to… scrolling today, check out @frontenddogma’s archives 📜

    frontenddogma.com/topics/scrol

  2. 🚀 Wow, folks, an "exciting" new browser library that magically measures paragraph heights without touching the DOM! 🎩✨ Because, clearly, the world was crying out for more efficient text rendering effects while we all wait for Web 3.0 to reinvent #scrollbars. 🙄
    simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/29/ #excitingbrowserlibrary #textmeasuring #webdevelopment #Web3 #HackerNews #ngated

  3. @peteorrall

    Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.

    KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).

    Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?

    Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD

  4. @peteorrall

    Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.

    KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).

    Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?

    Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD

  5. @peteorrall

    Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.

    KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).

    Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?

    Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD

  6. @peteorrall

    Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.

    KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).

    Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?

    Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD

  7. @peteorrall

    Yes, dear God, yes. The modern #ScrollBars are another huge gripe of mine.

    KDE Plasma's default scrollbars are just serviceable enough, and I've figured out how to force usable scrollbars on #Firefox and #Thunderbird (can share, if you like).

    Why the fork do scrollbars on my desktop (which I use with a MOUSE) have to look just like they do in iOS (which aren't exactly USABLE to begin with)?

    Who the flip is making these decisions? Can I get their name and address so I can deliver a badly needed #wedgie?!? XD

  8. Where am I on this page? Nobody knows. I cannot ask the scrollbar
    because it is hiding as a thin ghostly translucent grayness.

    The Mozilla Corporation / Mozilla Foundation's usability and
    accessibility experts must have been on a cocaine fueled binge when
    greenlighting the killing of Mozilla Firefox's scrollbar.

    Or is it the Gimp Toolkit people, the Gnome Foundation and/or Gnome
    Project that are behind this travesty? This idiocy? This abhorrent
    lapse of moral judgement?

    #a11y
    #accessibility
    #firefox
    #gimptoolkit
    #gnome
    #gnomefoundation
    #gnomeproject
    #gtk
    #mozilla
    #mozillacorporation
    #mozillafirefox
    #mozillafoundation
    #scrollbar
    #scrollbars
    #thesaurus
    #usability
  9. I once found a thread where the the #scrollbars issue was mentioned.

    It was a very popular thread. 'nuff said

  10. #Mastodon #Question :
    Is there a way to stop the scroll bars (both vertical and horizontal) from vanishing when the mouse is moved away from them?! It seems idiotic that you have to close in on the bar slowly to wake it up and be able to see where the actual 'scroll cursor' is to grab it in order to make a fine adjustment. It's not like they would take up any extra space if they were visible all the time.
    #ScrollBars

  11. #Scrollbars tell you how long a page is by screenfuls (number of viewports), while also telling you how many screenfuls remain from your current position… Once you see the text size, the spacing, understand the header & maybe footer size, and consider how quickly you read, you will have a good sense if the page is something you can skip, skim, or tuck in to read. I bet you already do that without consciously thinking.”

    Scrollbars are not visual clutter.

    adrianroselli.com/2024/09/unde

  12. CW: firefox scroll bar punk

    - in the address bar, type about:config and press enter
    - search for widget.gkt-overlay-scrollbars.enabled, and set it to false, to keep scroll bars from hiding
    - set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style to 4, to make scroll bars rectangular
    - set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 24, to make scroll bars wide
    - set general.autoScroll to true, to enable "middle mouse button scrolling"
    - install the Custom Scrollbars addon (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef) to change to colour of scroll bars (global and site-specific)

    #accessibility #scrollBars #makeScrollBarsVisibleAgain #firefox

  13. How can infinite amount of space be #visualized without #scrollbars?

    Do you know of any examples?

  14. #Astuce #Vivaldi #Desktop :

    Si vous #juxtaposez souvent plusieurs #onglets, les barres de défilement pourront parfois être soit disgracieuses, soit encombrantes, voire les deux à la fois 🥴

    N'hésitez pas à tester l'argument --hide-scrollbars en ligne de commande 👌

    #scrollbars

  15. #Astuce #Vivaldi #Desktop :

    Si vous #juxtaposez souvent plusieurs #onglets, les barres de défilement pourront parfois être soit disgracieuses, soit encombrantes, voire les deux à la fois 🥴

    N'hésitez pas à tester l'argument --hide-scrollbars en ligne de commande 👌

    #scrollbars

  16. The trend of 2 pixel wide #scrollbars in every browser is terrible.
    I never see them and hav to search. #UX at wworst.

    Is there a setting in #Chrome or #Firefox ?

  17. With this Firefox AddOn, you can finally #MakeScrollbarsVisibleAgain :-)

    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

    > Give your browser a personalized touch with custom scrollbar colours! You can select from any range of colours and toggle between the default width and thin scrollbar... or hide it altogether if that's what floats your boat.

    #Firefox #AddOn #accessibility #customization #scrollBars #UserInterface #mastodon

  18. I have come to understand some people still do not know color-scheme, and that it's a nice way to make dark mode scrollbars without doing the things @eric will tell you is a bad idea :)

    So here you go!

    sarajoy.dev/blog/color-scheme/

    #HTML #CSS #darkMode #scrollBars

  19. Hey #FediHelp

    I've noticed the up and down arrows on the scroll bars are missing - which is very annoying, I use them all the time

    Can they be restored? Or can I choose a different theme? Or is there a workaround?

    This is when using mastodon.online - which is version v4.0.2

    It's the same in Chrome Version 107.0.5304.110

    and Firefox version 106.0.5

    #Scrollbars


  20. My main thing is I need REAL , for the love of God!

    I can't deal with iOS-style disappearing ugly narrow scrollbars of doom. That's why I picked the Leopard theme, but its' not really the best fit for my environment.

    Can someone recommend a tasteful, light, Arc-ish or Mint-Y-style theme with actual solid scrollbars?