[lelanthran]

There's a scroll indicator!

It tells you, by looking at a thin bar, how far down the page you are! What a novel idea!

I wish browsers had this builtin so that we didn't need to implement a bar for showing the user how much of the document is left to scroll.

(Seriously though, wtf did firefox make the scrollbar autohide? In order to see it the user has to interact with the page. It's worse in the debugger, where horizontal scrollbar just won't show until you interact with the keyboard in some way).

[b112]

Because firefox devs are... weird. I don't even mean that detrimentally, just observationally.

You can un-hide that bar permanently, but when you do, it always covers the edge of the webpage.

# scrollbar fixes

user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style", 1);

user_pref("layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible", true);

I literally cannot see the benefit in hiding the scrollbar. It sounds like an edge case made primary.

[toyg]

FF devs have to justify their jobs like any other. Someone was promoted for shipping a fancy-looking feature that some other browser, somewhere, probably has as default.

Still better than the Borg, at least you can fix it.

[o1y32]

I guess you never used MacOS, where the default system scroll bar behavior is even more interesting.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Yeah, seriously bugs me too. Scrollbars were one of the most powerful, useful UI components out there, and we had to sacrifice them because of mobile, for some reason.