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Is there a way to get Windows 11's Firefox scroll bar on Windows 10 ?

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Valentin Marquès
Valentin Marquès
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Hi,

I was previously using Windows 11 with Firefox, and changed back to Windows 10 as W11 has way too many issues on lot of points. But there was one thing I liked in Firefox on W11 is the scroll bars. They were narrow and discreete, and expanded when I hover with the mouse. I prefer that over the wide and very flat Windows 10 bar.

Is there a way to get this new bar on Windows 10 ?

Thanks in advance for your help, have a great day.

Hi, I was previously using Windows 11 with Firefox, and changed back to Windows 10 as W11 has way too many issues on lot of points. But there was one thing I liked in Firefox on W11 is the scroll bars. They were narrow and discreete, and expanded when I hover with the mouse. I prefer that over the wide and very flat Windows 10 bar. Is there a way to get this new bar on Windows 10 ? Thanks in advance for your help, have a great day.

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Terry
Terry
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Quote: "On Windows, Firefox follows the system setting (System Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars)" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1376348

If that doesn't achieve what you want, try changing the following preference to 5 in about:config. That relates to the Windows 11 style. widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

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Terry
Terry
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There is another preference which you may also need to change. See the lengthy comment in the thread below (remove blank space).

https://www.reddit. com/r/firefox/comments/uimdrr/the_smaller_less_intrusive_scrollbar_is_the/