Css Scrollbars In Firefox?

Madkat-Z

Jul 7 2006, 03:49 PM

Ok, I wasn't too sure weither this topic would be better under Internet or Software, so if it is in the wrong place please forgive me.

I have a question about web browsers. I currently use Firefox and I was wondering if there is a way to get FireFox to display CSS Scrollbars, like Opera and Internet Explore do.

I've currently looked at the FireFox Add-On site and did a few searches on Google and I have come up with nothing and I'm getting a strange suspision that there is no way to do such a thing.

If anyone can help I will be forever grateful.

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fffanatics

Jul 7 2006, 05:24 PM

Currently there is no way to get that to work. The only way it would work is if Mozilla added it into a new version of firefox which i hope they do soon since i love that feature.

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Forbez

Feb 10 2007, 12:58 AM

For the moment there is no way of editing the scrollbars for Firefox. Only way is to force your veiws to download 1 Firefox theme, in which changes the scrollbar. But thats to much trouble for 1 scrollbar. What I do is to have on the website - Best veiwed in Internet Explorer - Somewhere for them to see.

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kawasu

Feb 12 2007, 02:14 AM

you i've also wanted this feature implemented into firefox for a long time to come. you'd think it would be a standard feature seeing firefox is such a widely used web browser. lets all hope they squeeze it into their next release!

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jlhaslip

Feb 12 2007, 04:25 AM

I doubt that will happen.

Firefox 3 is expected to reach the level of Standards Compliance required to pass the Acid Test 2, which means behaving strongly to the w3c standards and scrollbars enhancements are not in the specifications, so don't be holding your breathe waiting to Firefox to breach those specifications.

Just my take on this problem.

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salamangkero

Feb 12 2007, 08:54 AM

QUOTE(jlhaslip @ Feb 12 2007, 12:25 PM)

Firefox 3 is expected to reach the level of Standards Compliance required to pass the Acid Test 2, which means behaving strongly to the w3c standards and scrollbars enhancements are not in the specifications, so don't be holding your breathe waiting to Firefox to breach those specifications.

Awwh, that' too bad. I mean, if one site has a theme, it would really be nifty if the scrollbars, too, followed that theme. Then again, the novelty of the idea might wear off once everyone else uses CSS for scrollbars. Nonetheless, while browsers like IE and Opera support CSS toolbars, there will still be people who'd use 'em. As for Firefox users (me included), too bad. Still, what damage could not seeing CSS scrollbars do?

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hitmanblood

Apr 15 2007, 09:08 AM

Well you may search for some add on it might be helpful.

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reconraiders

Aug 12 2007, 01:18 PM

personally I don't like having "styled" scrollbars anyway. Sometimes (if they are well designed) they are okay. But a lot of times they make for a more difficult user experience because they are different from what the user is used to. I guess it's a personal opinion.

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9block

Aug 12 2007, 04:19 PM

I dont like poorly designed one either, but I do not know flash/javascript so everytime I have a DIV overflow: scroll it puts a nice big ugly scroll bar where my main content is. Guess ima have to learn another way of styling the scroll bar.. perhaps java?I dont wanna go the flash route.

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alex7h3pr0gr4m3r

Sep 5 2007, 08:18 PM

QUOTE(fffanatics @ Jul 7 2006, 10:24 AM)

i love that feature.

Lol I hate that feature in IE. its so annoying to see the website controlling the gui of my system. Its great if your a web developer, but super annoying if your surfing that page. If you realy must though theres a quick and easy way to get around that and make it work on all web browsers. Use javascript and div layers to make a dynamic scrollbar for the page, and hide the real one by putting all of your content in a div layer and setting overflow to hidden, then have the scrollbar scroll up and down the div layer with the content in it.

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Actually, I'm working on a browser based game and the ugly grey scrollbar doesn't do the rest of the design any favors; being able to edit that adds to the asthetics of the interface.
True, an "off" button, as with most any features, is a good thing and will let those who absolutely do not want anyone messing with their GUI to preserve their settings. But, the rest of design space shouldn't have to suffer. Allow opt-out or opt-in and give those of us who want the control to have it.

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iGuest

Mar 23 2009, 05:19 PM

Actually - look at CSS3 specifications and you'll find scrollbar changes supported.

However I hope Firefox will do the sensible thing and get fully CSS2 compliant before they go on to CSS3. The greater control over text in some of the CSS2 specifications is important to get out of the way before we add things like scrollbar changes.

In fact there's other stuff in CSS3 which is way more interesting than scrollbar changes so - much as I like the idea - I'd rather that stuff was done before we start changing scrollbars.

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y4nzi

Dec 23 2008, 12:30 PM

I personally don't like changing the scrollbar colours, I don't think it adds much to the site in terms of design. I find it better to leave it as is.
If firefox does include it, I hope they include a "switch off" option or something because some of the scrollbar designs I've seen are, to put bluntly *horrible* in terms of colour schemes and functionality.

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