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> As I type this, there is no scrollbar on my screen because Firefox no longer does that. If you’re using Linux: blame GNOME for this; in GTK 3 and 4, they act

> As I type this, there is no scrollbar on my screen because Firefox no longer does that. If you’re using Linux: blame GNOME for this; in GTK 3 and 4, they actively removed your ability to get non-overlay scrollbars without each individual app manually supporting the concept. So there’s no global switch or anything like on macOS or Windows. Firefox has a setting “Always show scrollbars”, but precious little other GTK software will support non-overlay scrollbars in any way.

gwern 3y ago
The problem is, there are so many to blame. It's not just GNOME: it's Microsoft, and Apple, and GNOME, and... It can't be fixed by just one entity refusing to go with the flow; the flow is the problem. As long as there seems to be some sort of invisible consensus by designers worldwide that Scollbars Are Bad, the problem will spread and infiltrate systems, even ones which ostensibly default to scrollbars. ('A setting' is also not a fix but a copout as I already pointed out - you know >99% of users will never change it, especially on mobile. Whether open source or closed, maintainers are always the same when it comes to taking the hard path of fixing something's design or the easy path of saying 'you can set an option, CLOSED'.)