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This is primarily intended to be a helpful note to anyone dealing with |
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the problem where recent firefox, possibly only when built against gtk3, |
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loses its scrollbar "thumbs", a problem I was seeing here, with the |
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mozilla-built binary[1], but others may find it worthwhile, and |
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beautiful, as well. |
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A google suggests the problem is gtk-3.20-related, as one poster found |
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that downgrading to gtk-3.18.x returned his scrollbars. However, I |
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wasn't particularly thrilled at the idea of downgrading so I continued |
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googling. |
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Fortunately there's a rather nice workaround in the form of the |
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"NewScrollbars (aka NoiaScrollbars)" extension. Yes, that's the name, |
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including the aka in parentheses. |
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noiascrollbars/ |
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They're customizable color-gradient scrollbars that as one of the reviews |
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says, are "Way better looking than the default." "Just classes up the |
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appearance of the page. Great useful add on." |
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Even *more* "useful" and "great" when they avoid a bug in the default, |
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but now I'm glad I had the bug as I'd have been unlikely ever to find |
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them, otherwise, and they're both rather pretty and customizable enough |
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to work with my "reverse" color scheme with light on dark! =:^) |
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[1] Mozilla-built binary: Since IMO gentoo seems to be late with updates, |
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potentially fatally late, for what's likely the most exposed app on the |
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system, so now I get the builds direct from mozilla. I do understand |
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that the gentoo maintainers have to make sure it actually builds on the |
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wide range of what gentoo users have installed and that's not always |
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exactly simple, but even when the update's available even just a week |
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after the upstream release, when that could well be five days vulnerable |
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to an active exploit, it counts! So I'm not exactly happy with the idea, |
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but I'm grabbing the binary direct from mozilla now, and letting firefox |
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itself handle the updates. At least that way I get them the day of |
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release or so, not generally days after release when I may be already |
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exploited if I'm waiting on gentoo. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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