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wtx

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 92

Firefox - scrollbar independent from xfce window manager

Hi,

After one of previous upgrades I noticed that firefox has changed the scrollbars.
The scrollbar now (after upgrade) looks like this:

and before the upgrade looked like this:

Seems like those scrollbars in firefox are independent on the style set in window manager.
I use xfce as window manager and "Clearlooks" as a xfce style.

For testing purposes I run also seamonkey - and in this case scrollbars are ok. I've got this problem only with firefox.

Anyone knows what is wrong? Is there something what can be done to get the same scrollbars as in seamonkey?
Maybe I missed something?

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 243

Re: Firefox - scrollbar independent from xfce window manager

The appearence of scrollbars has nothing to do with the window manager (be it xfwm4 or any other). The window manager only defines the appearence of the window decorations. You style scrollbars via rc files css files (Firefox uses gtk3), provided by themes, which you select, for example, in xfce's appearence settings. Recently we had the gtk 3.20 update which brought a lot of changes to theming and a lot of themes became broken in the process (just search for all the other gtk 3.20 threads here).
So either you choose the Adwaita or Arc theme which are already updated to gtk 3.20 or you wait until your theme is updated.